The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley

"Sometimes when you fall off your horse, you just don't want to get
right back on."

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Abstract: Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; 232 pages