My Friend Flicka Summary
Mary O'Hara

Everything you need to understand or teach My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara.

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My Friend Flicka Summary

My Friend Flicka is more than a great horse story. It shows the struggles of a dreamer as he enters the hard world that others live in and begins to accept responsibility. Readers of any age can appreciate the struggles of Ken, the scatterbrained son of a demanding father, as he spends a summer trying to prove himself.

The other characters are unusually well-rounded. Howard, the smug older brother, makes a satisfactory antagonist...

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