About the Book - If Wishes Were Horses 

(Chapter book) - Set on a Vermont Farm in 1932, this is a story of family ties and hard choices.  Lily and Emily are sisters who fight about everything until one of them is stricken with polio.

Awards - If Wishes Were Horses

Reviews - If Wishes Were Horses

Kirkus Reviews - "In this lovely, haunting novel, ....Readers will be hard-pressed to remain dry-eyed as the novel draws to its sad, but never maudlin, conclusion.  The author writes with sureness and clarity, and the characters are memorable." (Nov. 1, 2000 review)

Availability - If Wishes Were Horses

(hardcover):   If Wishes Were Horses, by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock (illustrated by James Yamasaki) (2000)  Dutton Children's Books; div. of Penguin Putnam Books,  ISBN 0-525-46448-4