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  • Published: 1 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780385376662
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $16.99

Taming the Star Runner



Taming the Star Runner is now available for the first time in trade paperback. S. E. Hinton's novels are as relevant as ever, and this trade paper edition with dynamic new art is sure to attract a whole new generation of Hinton fans. Her novels Rumble Fish and Tex will be published simultaneously, in first time trade paperback editions as well.

From the best-selling author of The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton's Taming the Star Runner explores loneliness and the need to belong, and the inevitability of change--universal struggles associated with coming-of-age. This edition includes a new and exclusive Author's Note.

Travis is the epitome of cool, especially when he's in trouble. But when he's sent to stay on his uncle's ranch, he finds that his tough attitude doesn't make him any friends, and his city survival skills are no match for the unforgiving land. He does find friendship of a sort with Casey, who runs a riding school. She's the bravest person Travis has ever met, and crazy enough to try to tame the Star Runner, her beautiful and dangerous horse, always on edge and about to explode--like Travis himself.

  • Published: 1 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780385376662
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $16.99

About the author

S.E. Hinton

S. E. Hinton wrote her first book, The Outsiders, in 1967, when she was seventeen years old. She graduated from the University of Tulsa in 1970, with a degree in education. The following year, she married a fellow student, David. They have one son and live in Tulsa.

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Praise for Taming the Star Runner

"A powerful story . . . Travis is Everyteen," stating that "Hinton continues to grow more reflective in her books, but her great understanding, not of what teenagers are but of what they can hope to be, is undiminished."--Kirkus Reviews