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My Friend Flicka

My Friend Flicka

Author(s): Mary O'hara

Location(s): Wyoming

Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult

Era(s): 1940s

Ken the young daydreamer yearns for a colt of his own. In an effort to drive up his school grades, he is promised his own colt and it is the relationship and the determination of young Ken to do right by his horse that is gripping and really draws the reader in.

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