Centaur Rising

By Jane Yolen

Subjects: Single-parent families, Farm life, fiction, Human Abnormalities, Secrecy, Farm life, Horses, fiction, Horses, JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Horses, Centaurs, Connecticut, fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Lifestyles / Farm & Ranch Life, Fantasy, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Issues), Secrets, Fiction, Children's fiction, Quakers, Connecticut, history, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret. A year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields near her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because her six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the pony a secret.