National Velvet

By Enid Bagnold

Subjects: England, fiction, Horses, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Children's fiction, Horse racing, fiction, Adolescence, fiction

Description: In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase.