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And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is determined that both of them will know what is to be home again soon … Having had interrupted campaigns in previous seasons, Snow Leopardess has a full 2021-22 campaign, something Longsdon believes has helped significantly. The social service workers in the book are portrayed as always not even trying to explain to the child why they make the decisions they make. It seems that the author implicitly agrees with that approach. Well I think that's NOT the right way. One ought to be both open and sincere with the child, while using language at an appropriate level, instead of concealing or distorting the truth based on the excuse that it is for the child's sake. Although one needs to take into account the child's emotional and mental well-being, it is counter-productive to work based on the assumption that social service workers always know what is best. All humans (professional or not) may make mistakes, and it is hence a disservice to the child to not at least seek to understand and cater for the child's own feelings as part of working WITH the child. I did not like that this "social service workers know best" mantra was repeated and implied to be true multiple times (such as by the words that the author made Gabe say to Addie).

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Just let lovely Ruth and Sam look after you for a bit’ Penny, the social worker, encourages Addie. Yet Addie takes care of her Mam. That’s the way it’s meant to be. She didn’t mean to drop the milk bottle and alert the suspicions of the neighbours that Mam wasn’t coping again. Yet somehow, somebody found out and now Addie’s here, on an Exmoor farm, with lovely Ruth and Sam and Gabe, and Flo the sheepdog. There are other children, including Sunni, who doesn’t want Addie there, and Jake, who says nothing. Snow Leopardess might be the centre of attention at present but in time Longsdon hopes that her legacy will live on through her daughter Red Panda, who will join his team this summer. He explained: “We have had Pendra run in it twice and get round. We had a faller at the first, Ely Brown, and Palypso de Creek fell at the fourth last when tailed off and Drop Out Joe was pulled up before the last. The perfect children’s book to curl up with and begin the new year. A beautiful and heart-wrenching middle grade debut for kids aged 9 to 11, full of love, healing, friendship and hope. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracey Beaker , Cathy Cassidy, Pax and Gill Lewis.When her alcoholic mother is unable to take care of her, 11-year-old Addie moves in with a long-term foster family on a remote working farm. Ruth, Sam and their adopted son Gabe provide a loving, stable environment for Addie and two other foster children in their care. However, desperate to return to her mum, Addie is determined that she will not stay for long. The perfect children's book to curl up with and begin the new year. A beautiful and heart-wrenching middle grade debut for kids aged 9 to 11, full of love, healing, friendship and hope. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson's Tracey Beaker , Cathy Cassidy, Pax and Gill Lewis. My only problems with the book really was that there didn't seem to be any closure on Addie's trouble with the bullies in school, and although this was touched upon with Gabe, Ruth and Sam trying to help her with it, it might've been nice to show that things had just started to look up for her maybe. I think as well that the story was maybe just a little bit drawn out, like it could've been a bit more concise and maybe beated around the bush just a bit, like with Addie wanting to get the foal home (which I also think might've been better if someone had shown up and stopped her before she actually went through with it) and Addie and Sunni's rivalry, which although we seemed to start to get some closure on at the end, it might've been nice if this had come just a little bit earlier, but at gradual stages, as obviously I didn't expect them to become BFFs by the end of the book, but it might've been nice seeming them just gradually and subtly connect over their mutual problems of being in care.

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Eleven-year-old Addie has been taken to a rural farm in Exmoor, to stay with a foster family whilst her mum gets help in looking after herself and her daughter. Addie is angry and upset to be apart from her mum and doesn’t want to be at the farm. She hopes it is just for one night, but one night turns into weeks and then months. The Fox-Pitts are an amazing family, and any horse coming from the Fox-Pitts was always going to be a character,” observes the Oxfordshire trainer. What they haven’t done in the equestrian world isn’t worth doing, and their horses seem to follow suit.”Ruth smiled still more broadly. ‘Good,’ she said. ‘Won’t be a mo.’ She moved a shiny copper pan from the bench on to the stove and began to stir it. I just want to go to sleep,’ Addie said. She gulped down her hot drink, wiped her hand across her mouth, got to her feet.

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He added: “I’ve got no issues with her stamina whatsoever. Yes, it looked like she was tying up in the Becher Chase but that is because she had been in front for two and a half miles into a driving headwind and driving rain.stars maybe. This was a really nice read, and I think it did a great job exploring the issue of children in care with Adverse Childhood Experiences and just how painful, confusing and complicated it is for them. My heart really went out to Addie, as it seemed like she was so alone in the world, with no mum to look after her, no friends, nobody who was really there for her, until she had the foal of course, and eventually Jude and some of the others at the farmhouse, as it was lovely seeing her developing friendship with Jude, with his character arc being a really heartwarming one, though it was very bittersweet when he got adopted and thus had to leave the farmhouse, as it was wonderful how he got adopted by such a lovely, kind, genuine, caring couple yet heartbreaking for Addie how she had lost him who was her only real friend at the house. He smelled the air, seeking his mother’s warm, milky scent. He called. Listened. Called again. He thought he heard his mother’s voice lifting through the trees. She was thirsty now. Could she get a drink from the bathroom? She might wake Sunni if she got up. Or Ruth. Or Sam. She didn’t think Ruth would mind, but what about Sam? He’d been out working until late, Ruth said. He’d be very tired. People got angry when they were tired. Sunni shrugged her shoulders. ‘My mum wants me to come home too, only she couldn’t learn how to look after me properly, so I’m staying here.’ We will do a good bit of work around Lambourn after she has jumped and that will basically be most of her hard work done. The purpose of jumping the fences tomorrow is more a case of dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.

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When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she's not so alone after all. Addie looked over her shoulder. Penny was taking papers from her bag: papers about Addie. Papers for deciding things.

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The perfect children's book to curl up with and begin the new year.A beautiful and heart-wrenching middle grade debut for kids aged 9 to 11, full of love, healing, friendship and hope. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson's Tracey Beaker, Cathy Cassidy, Pax and Gill Lewis. Perfect,’ Penny said. She put her briefcase on the table. Addie stared at it. She knew all about that briefcase, with its files full of secrets and lies.