Kelly Reno was cast in a film based on a novel from what year?
Kelly Reno Kelly Reno (born June 19, 1966, in Pueblo, Colorado) is a former child actor who was cast at age 11 in the role of Alec Ramsey, the young boy who is marooned on a deserted island along with a horse, in "The Black Stallion" (based on the novel by Walter Farley). The film was made in 1977.
The Secret River The Secret River, written by Kate Grenville in 2005, is a historical novel about an early 19th-century Englishman transported to Australia for theft. The story explores what might have happened when Europeans colonised land already inhabited by Aboriginal people. The book has been compared to Thomas Keneally's "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" and to Peter Carey's "True History of the Kelly Gang" for its style and historical theme.