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Book about a girl after her horse died in an accident
Definite Details
- Prior to the start of the story a girl was out riding a horse on a cliff-side trail and something happened, and the horse throws her and falls over the edge. The horse dies, and several girls at the barn blame the MC
- Horse was male
- MC couldn't remember exactly what happened
- The owner of the barn (and dead horse) didn't blame MC
- A new girl moves to the area and is one of the only nice people to the MC. There's a scene where she finds MC walking down the road crying and bring her to her house and gives her OJ
- Later, it's revealed that the horse that died was intentionally spooked by a whistle; the MC had a flashback at the sound of a soccer whistle. One of the girls who had been bullying the MC had spooked the horse out of jealousy, no one was supposed to get hurt
- MC gets her own horse near the end of the movie
- There were occasional live action pictures throughout the book
Possible details
- Pony Club book
- Horse was a palomino
- MC was unable to ride for a while, she helped the new girl from the ground with horse training
- Thin hardcover book, larger (height and width, not length) than normal
- Primarily blue cover
- Cover image was live action photograph
- I would have read it sometime in the early 2000s, 2006 at the latest
It is NOT the Horse Whisperer. There was no horse whispering, no dating, and the horse definitely died before the story started
u/Cyartra — 6 days ago