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The Glory

Author	St John, Lauren
Publisher	Orion
Series	Casey Blue

The Glory

St John, Lauren

Two teenagers from very different backgrounds look to enter one of the world’s toughest endurance races.

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Categories: Authors A–Z, British books

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Meet The Author

Publishing history
Orion, London, 2015, 320 pp.

You would have thought that teenager Alexandra Blakewood had she could wish for. She doesn’t have a horse, however, but what she does have is an amazing ability to get into trouble. When she’s sent to a US boot camp, escape beckons in the form of a horse race across the American West called The Glory.

She is not the only teenager with an interest in the race: Will Greyton was a star student, but had to leave school when his father was laid off. Now Will works at a burger joint, and his father needs an operation and that has to be paid for. The prize for The Glory is $250,000…

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