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Race the Wind

Author	St John, Lauren
Publisher	Orion
Series	Casey Blue

Race the Wind

St John, Lauren

Second in the Casey Blue series: in this episode, Casey’s full of plans for Kentucky. However, it looks as if her plans will be scuppered when Casey’s father is arrested.

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Publishing history
Orion, London, 2013, 224 pp.
My review of the book

Second in the Casey Blue series: in this episode, Casey’s full of plans for Kentucky. However, it looks as if her plans will be scuppered when Casey’s father is arrested. Casey feels she must stay and defend her father, whom she is convinced was wrongly accused. However, Casey is then forced into competing by a mysterious person who tells her she must compete if she wants to be given an DVD which proves her father is innocent.

Casey Blue
The One Dollar Horse
Race the Wind
Fire Storm

Lauren St John

St John, Lauren

Lauren St John has written several well-received books for children. Her Dead Man’s Cove, the first in her Laura Marlin series, won the Blue Peter Children’s Book prize in 2011. She was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and was brought up in South Africa on a 1,000 acre farm, where she rode, and also had a pet giraffe, Jenny, who provided the inspiration for her book The White Giraffe. Her black horse, Morning Star, she called ‘the single best thing about my childhood’.

The One Dollar Horse was her first essay into equestrian fiction, and the first in a three part series. It is the story of Casey Blue, born and brought up in inner city London, but with a burning desire to compete at Badminton. Much of the book I enjoyed; it’s particularly good to see a book set (at least initially) in surroundings with which many of its readers will identify.

Finding the books
All in print.

Links and sources
Lauren St John’s website
Lauren St John on creative writing with children