![]() ![]() ![]() He soon meets a federal marshal who is tracking the outlaws and allows Silas to join him. Silas decides that the pony will be able to lead him to his father.Īnd thus begins Silas’s journey with Pony and Mittenwool. But the decision is made easier when the pony with the strange markings that had accompanied the strangers, all black with a white head, returns to his house without a rider. Such is Palacio’s writing that we are rapt with Silas’s dilemma as he must decide whether to follow his father, who was basically kidnapped by three men with guns who called him by another name, or stay put in their house as his father had instructed him he must. It’s filled with action from the first page, where we meet Silas Bird, his father, his dog, and his best friend, a ghost he calls Mittenwool. ![]() In “Pony,” Palacio forces us to think about love, loss, and the connections that bind us to each other. Each story is beautiful in its own right, and “Pony” is one that will not be quickly forgotten. Palacio reminded me a bit of another middle grade book about a pony, “ Some Kind of Courage” by Dan Gemeinhart, the stories are quite different apart from being historical fiction with both boys having a horse that they love dearly. ![]()
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