{"id":7400,"date":"2011-11-12T08:09:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T12:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2017-06-01T12:56:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:56:07","slug":"the-golden-spark-featured-in-midwest-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2011\/11\/the-golden-spark-featured-in-midwest-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Golden Spark&#8217; featured in Midwest Book Review Bookwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4112\" title=\"The Golden Spark bookcover;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gh2-icon187x289.jpg\" alt=\"The Golden Spark bookcover;The Golden Spark&quot; bookcover (2011)\" height=\"180\" style=\"margin-right:3em;\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:2em; padding: 0 2em; width:80%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/book2.html\"><strong><em>The Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, Book #2 of <strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy, is being featured in the current <em>Midwest Book Review &#8211; Children&#8217;s Bookwatch<\/em> selection. The selected titles are chosen from an average 1,500 books submitted each month.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestbookreview.com\/cbw\/oct_11.htm\">Midwest Book Review | Children&#8217;s Bookwatch<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Trapped in time, all she has is her will and her equine knowledge to try to guide her home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book II: <em>The Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong> is the second book in John Royce&#8217;s series (<strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy) following a young teenage girl who is lost in the Renaissance and trying to put it all together to find her way home.<\/p>\n<p>With a good focus on history and horses, <strong><em>The Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong> is a fun and enjoyable read, highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p><em>* Recommended for Ages 14 &#038; Up<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestbookreview.com\/cbw\/oct_11.htm\">&#187; See original review online<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-393\" title=\"knight chesspiece\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/media-kit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/knight.gif\" alt=\"graphic image of knight chesspiece\" width=\"35\" height=\"59\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/book2.html\"><strong><em>The Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is the 2nd book of <b>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/b> <em>trilogy<\/em>, an award winning time-travel adventure through history\u2014on horseback! The story follows the journey of a modern horsewoman lost in the distant past.<\/p>\n<p>The trilogy books have won multiple national awards including the <b>2009 Eric Hoffer Award<\/b> for best Young Adult Fiction, and the <b>2010 Mom\u2019s Choice Award<\/b> for best family-friendly Young Adult Fantasy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Further information about this unique &#8216;creative non-fiction&#8217; novel can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\" title=\"\u2018The Legend of the Great Horse\u2019 trilogy - website\">TheGreatHorse.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trapped in time, all she has is her will and her equine knowledge to try to guide her home &#8230; With a good focus on history and horses, THE GOLDEN SPARK is a fun and enjoyable read, highly recommended.&#8221;&#8212;<em>Midwest Book Review ~ Children&#8217;s Bookwatch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[289,59],"tags":[118,355,82,16,62,40,28,84,397,271,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15096,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions\/15096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}