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Paint The Wind
Pam Muñoz Ryan

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Copyright 2007
327 pages
ISBN: 0439873622
Young Adult
In Print

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(western) Maya befriends a mustang once loved by her mother.

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A photograph and a box of plastic horses are all Maya has left of her mother. Her Grandmother, devastated by the loss of her only son, holds tight to her grandaughter fiercely. Then everything changes, and Maya finds herself in Wyoming, where she learns to ride, and learns to love the wild horses.

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A tearjerker, by ponydom on November 14, 2008

When Maya arrives in Wyoming, she is scarred, guarded, and green, with little experience outside of her Grandmother's stifling grasp. She loves horses, and has learned all about them when Grandmother wasn't looking - but only from books. At 11, she is surprised by how big a horse is close up.

The characters are interesting and three dimensional. Maya's Aunt Vi - wrangler during the summer, art history professor during the main part of the year - names all of the horses for famous painters, including our main horse character, the pinto mare Artemisia.

There is a lot of sadness in this book, but it is finely written and the end is satisfying and worth the journey. It is good to see some strong, new, original horse fiction coming from Scholastic Press again, as good as the books I remember growing up with.