Horror Trip on the Pecos River

Die 13-jährige Jessica lebt auf einer Farm im Westen der USA. Sie liebt ihr Pferd Flashy über alles. Eines Tages stehlen Pferdediebe Flashy und entführen Jessica obendrein. Sie scheint spurlos verschwunden. Da hat ihr Freund David eine Idee... "Horror Trip on the Pecos River" ist "Winner 2008" bei der Vergabe des "LLL Award" der "Extensive Reading Foundation" in der Kategorie "Beginners".

From the Publisher

EXTENSIVE READING FOUNDATION'S LANGUAGE LEARNER LITERATURE AWARD 2008 in the category Adolescents and Adults- Beginners goes to Paul Davenport's 'Horror Trip on the Pecos River'. In the words of the international jury: 'Engaging and fun. This teen thriller keeps you guessing.'

From the Back Cover

Life seems like a beautiful dream for Jessica Jackins, living on Jackins Ranch in the lovely town of Loving, New Mexico. Then she turns 13 and everything starts going wrong. Now she has to cope with all the changes happening to her, worst of all the fact that she's grown so tall that the boys in her class - including her new boyfriend David -all call her 'Stilts'. And, as if that isn't bad enough, a gang of rustlers steal her beloved horse Flashy and kidnap her, too! Her dreamlike life has turned into a horrible nightmare!

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Life is not that easy when you turn thirteen. You look in the mirror and what do you see? Hey, is that really me? Your body is changing, your hair is changing, your looks are changing. So you, the person inside this strange body, have got to change, too. The cute little girl you were is like yesterday's newspaper, it belongs to the past now. Today's news is that you're a big girl. And, as the song says, Big Girls Don't Cry. But what exactly do big girls do? That's what you've got to find out. You've got a lot to learn. And how do you learn all these things? The usual way is to watch other girls, older girls. Some of them have got it right. It's like they were always Big Girls. The way they talk, the way they walk, the way they brush the hair from their eyes - it's all so cool. Another way - not the usual way to learn all this - is to talk to your horse, if you've got one. Jessica has just turned thirteen and she's got a horse. She's a big girl now - on the outside. She's working on the person inside. It's hard work.

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