by Gigi Amateau
Most of all thank you to King Albert, our albino Appaloosa witch, and my daughter, Judith, a truly gifted writer and creative partner. I love you.
GIGI AMATEAU lives in Virginia, where she and her family have two horses: Albert, a cremello Appaloosa gelding who served half of his life as a school horse in certified therapeutic riding programs, and Mia, a Thoroughbred rescue mare who loves to jump. Gigi Amateau is the author of Claiming Georgia Tate and A Certain Strain of Peculiar, both novels for older teens. About Chancey of the Maury River, she says, “The infinite bond between my daughter, Judith, and our horse Albert inspired this story, as did Rockbridge County, Virginia. Judith, Albert, and I love to ride there in the surrounding Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains.”
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2008 by Gigi Amateau
Cover photographs: copyright © 2010 by Gerald Warrener/photolibrary (girl on horseback); copyright © 2010 by Clint Spencer/iStockphoto (background)
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.
First electronic edition 2011
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Amateau, Gigi, date.
Chancey of the Maury River / Gigi Amateau. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: After being abandoned, Chancey, an albino Appaloosa, finds a new home with Claire, who needs him as much as he needs her, but as his blindness encroaches, he and Claire start anew as a therapeutic team.
ISBN 978-0-7636-3439-1 (hardcover)
1. Appaloosa horse — Fiction.
[1. Appaloosa horse — Fiction. 2. Horses — Fiction. 3. Albinos and albinism — Fiction. 4. Pets — Therapeutic use — Fiction. 5. Blindness in animals — Fiction. 6. Maury River (Va.) — Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ10.3.A458Ch 2008
[Fic] — dc22 2007027961
ISBN 978-0-7636-4523-6 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5429-0 (electronic)
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