{"product_id":"belladonna-isbn-9780763651060","title":"Belladonna","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lyrical coming-of-age story about a boy, a girl, and a horse — and how a chance encounter can lead to a life of intrigue and learning, a life beyond imagining. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Thomas Rose first spots the girl hidden by the roadside, she looks as drab as a lark, with only her red kerchief giving her away. But French Hélène, who goes by \"Ling,\" is no ordinary bird. Tiny Ling enchants Thomas with her wild spirit and tales of a circus where she danced atop her beloved horse, Belladonna. But the horse has been sold, and Ling must fetch her back. Now Thomas’s life as a clever but unschooled wheelwright’s son is about to change. Their search leads to painter George Stubbs, who euthanizes ailing animals in order to study their anatomy. Stubbs draws eerie horses that stride as if they could move out of the paper world into the real one — but he assures his young friends that their horse is safe at a nearby estate. As Ling and Thomas devise a risky plan to recover Belladonna, Stubbs hires Thomas as an apprentice, teaching him to read and write as well. In this fascinating story, Mary Finn incorporates a real eighteenth-century artist into a beautifully imagined tale of adventure and young romance.\"A story as carefully and beautifully rendered as the anatomical studies that inspired it. . . . Best of all are the characters, particularly Ling, shown in all their flaws and glories, very much like a painting by Stubbs.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cb\u003eMary Finn \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eAnila’s Journey, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of a Parents’ Choice Gold Award and the Ellis Dillon Award for a first book in her native Ireland. About \u003ci\u003eBelladonna, \u003c\/i\u003eshe says, “I fell in love with George Stubbs’s precise yet ghostly anatomical studies of the horse. It was unlikely territory for a novel until Ling appeared, crying out for help.” Mary Finn lives in Dublin, Ireland.The fate of a horse will change their lives forever","brand":"Candlewick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299836219621,"sku":"NP9780763651060","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780763651060.jpg?v=1767722410","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/belladonna-isbn-9780763651060","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}