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    Taming the Star Runner

    By S. E. Hinton

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    The classic YA story of a boy, a horse, and pursuit of a dream. TAMING THE STAR RUNNER written by celebrated novelist S.E. Hinton, now available as an eBook for the first time.

    With an absent mother and a domineering step-father, Travis uses his tough-guy exterior to hide his true passion: writing. After a violent confrontation with his step-father, Travis is sent to live on his uncle’s horse ranch - exile to a born-and-bred city kid. Angry and yearning for a connection, Travis befriends Casey, the horse-riding instructor at the ranch, and the un-tamable horse in her stable: the Star Runner. When a friend from the city visits with stories of other kids from the neighborhood facing jail time, Travis is more determined than ever that he needs to escape the life of juvenile delinquency he seems destined for. When the offer of a book deal comes through, Travis is hopeful that this is his chance to escape, if only his step-father will stop standing in the way of his dreams.

    From the author of THE OUTSIDERS, S.E. Hinton once again writes about what it feels like to be unaccepted, and the power in being true to yourself.

    “Hinton continues to grow more reflective in her books, but her great understanding, not of what teenagers are but of what they can hope to be, is undiminished.”—Kirkus Reviews

    An ALA Best Books for Young Adults
    An ALA Quick Pick
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiversion Books
    Release dateApr 30, 2013
    ISBN9781938120831
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    S. E. Hinton

    S. E. Hinton was the first author to receive the Young Adult Services Division/School Library Journal Award for Life Achievement, and has received numerous other awards and honors. Her gritty and powerful novels have also inspired four major motion pictures. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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    • 4/5
      This is the story of Travis, a young man sent to live with an uncle he barely knows after an altercation with an abusive step father. Travis was one of the cool kids at his previous school but everyone at this new school is different and they steer clear of him. He becomes a loner not by his own choice. THen he befriends the girl that works at the horse barn. She is a stubborn, strong young woman with wishes to tame the troublesome horse names Star Runner. Travis falls in love, a little to suddenly. Travis has a secret that he has not shared with anyone - he wrote a book and sent it off to a publisher. When he gets news about his secret, he has no one to tell, goes out and gets drunk and causes his uncle regret. After talking to each other, they become closer. Good characterization, as usual with S.E. Hinton.
    • 4/5
      Somehow I missed this when I was remembering my favorite authors and catching up on them. It does belong on the same shelf with the author's other YA novels, but at this point in my life I can't say I loved it. I mean, for one thing, there's absolutely no subtlety. And even though there are plenty of struggles, everything just fits together and works out awfully nicely. And there's just too much smoking and drinking, with only nods to consequences. Otoh, it's still a gripping coming-of-age story with characters we really care about.
    • 3/5
      One of the newer S. E. Hinton novels and maybe even one of her best. This book is a little long, but really one of her more unique books. It doesn't have anything to do with gangs. This is the story of an only child who is sent to his uncle's farm because he is a juvenile delinquent. He learns how to take care of horses and eventually leanrs how to take care of himself. He is a fantastic writer who is always coming up with stories and typing them on his typewritter. It is said that this is a slight biography of S. E. Hinton herself. She has said that many things that happen in this book also happened to her. Wowsers.I really enjoyed this book and its humor. It really stands on its own among her other book.
    • 4/5
      181/181 pagesThis book is about a boy named Travis, who is forced to live at his Uncle Ken's ranch because he assault his stepfather for disposing some of the writings that Travis wrote for his book. When he gets goes to live at his uncle's home, and he becomes good friends with a girl named Casey Kencaide, who is a horseback riding teacher at Ken's ranch. She is the only one brave enough to ride a horse named the Star Runner and Travis learns that he and the Star Runner are not meant to be tamed or broken, even when things get rough.Travis is a big, tough teenage guy. He becomes more caring towards Casey and Ken and he also develops a closer relationship with them. I think that Travis has the potential to be a successful man because he has written his own book and it was published. In the book, Travis didn't make a lot of friends when he first moved to a new place. I can relate to this because it was first hard for me to make new friends at Moreau because there weren't a lot of people that went to Moreau from my old school.There wasn't anything that I didn't like in the this book. All the problems and characters were believable and that is why I liked the book.I would recommend this book to teenagers because their are realistic relationship problems in this book between family member and friends. If you don't fix these problem, it can jeopardize your relationship.
    • 3/5
      A troubled young teen has a physical altercation with his overbearing step-father, and winds up being sent to live with his uncle. Travis is full of himself, thinks he's better than anyone around him, but winds up realizing that friends and human companions are pretty important.I liked most of this book, though I felt the author could have developed the characters a bit more. And the ending was hurried, unsatisfactory, and not typical of SE Hinton's works.
    • 4/5
      Had never read this one back in the day. Enjoyed it so much and her stories, I am now re-reading Rumble Fish