Rainbow
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00DA71Y9G |
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| Number of Pages | : | 316 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
More amazing still, it seems the animal can predict football scores. A Highland calf is born, looking unlike any living creature seen before. It is the summer of a football World Cup and 11-year-old Jessie McAllister and her dad are struggling to keep their Scottish cattle farm going, until one day something miraculous happens. She is good at multi-tasking but can she save Rainbow, the farm and do her Geography homework?This moving family drama is the first in a Junior Pixello range, aimed at a Middle Grade reader (10+).Rainbow: A story about football, farming and one very special cow.. In the eye of a media storm, Jess must fight to keep Rainbow safe from frenzied outside interest, a life-threatening illness and even a gang of ruthless kidnappers
entertaining tale for young and old alike (RECEIVED FREE COPY TO REVIEW) likes good books, music, movies Maybe it's my imagination but it seems that every movie about Britain I've ever seen presents country life as one of contrasts, especially lives on farms. They are subtle but severe, fun but extremely hard work, requiring common sense but allowing for some mysterious undercurrent that seems to stretch back to when the British Isles first appeared.The author masterfully weaves those elements and more into his tale. Told from the POV of an 11-year old girl, it revolves around her and her father's struggles with making a cattle farm. Cows, What's not to Love? S.A. Molteni Rainbow by Scott Pixello is a sweet, heart-tugging tale of a unusual calf born minutes before her mother dies. This is not a story of loss, but one of love - love for a pet, love for family and love of the right things in life.The story opens with Jess, an 11-year old girl and her father (a widower) working on their cattle farm during calving season. Two heifers go into labor at the same time and Jess must help deliver one of the calf's in the barn while her father works with the second heifer in the field. Once Jess helps with t