AUTHOR: Ron Koertge
ISBN: 0316501018
Plot Summary: 16-year-old Billy Kennedy is spending the summer with his gay uncle in Tucson, cleaning stables and grooming horses at the local race track. He dreams of becoming a vet...and of the girl who exercises the horses.
Complaints: Inappropriate to age, sexual themes
Pulled from and later restored to the seventh grade English classroom at Minnetonka, Minn. Middle School West (1994) after a parent found the content inappropriate for twelve- and thirteen-year-olds.
Solonor Says Ban It Because: Mmmm...girls on horses...what? Oh! Yeah! Right! *ahem* Ban this immediately. It causes immoral thoughts. Besides, the uncle's GAY!
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