“Lee,” Justin said. “It’s not your fault that your parents were doing something illegal. It was their choice, man.”
Silence filled the kitchen.
“He’s right, you know,” Justin’s dad said gently.
“Do you want to see if Charlotte can come over and ride with us tomorrow?” Justin asked.
“Sounds good to me,” Lee said. “I’m going to do what the loony-bin doctor suggested and take it one day at a time. ‘Don’t try to cover the whole sky with the palm of your hand.’ That’s one of...”
“I know, I know,” Justin said, laughing. “One of your grandfather’s favorite Korean proverbs.”
About the Author
Martha Deeringer lives with her large, extended family on a central Texas cattle ranch. For many years, she accompanied groups of sixth graders (sometimes more than 100 per trip) to the YO Ranch Adventure Camp near Mountain Home, Texas. This book is a work of fiction, but the YO Ranch is real and still hosts groups of students.
Martha writes magazine articles for children and adults and an occasional novel or biography. She has been known to embarrass her grandchildren by writing stories about them and has even brought nearly frozen newborn calves into her laundry room to warm up. She loves kids, horses, dogs, books, gardening, writing and chocolate pie.
www.marthadeeringer.com
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When Emma Dean's parents buy a plain sorrel mare with slightly crooked knees at a prestigious horse sale, Emma isn't sure whether to be elated or disappointed. Cranky and irascible, the mare refuses to warm up to people or other horses. After she dumps Emma in the dirt on her first ride, Emma's dad loads the mare in a trailer and takes her to a trainer to protect his daughter from the bumps, bruises and broken bones that can result from riding a cantankerous 2 year-old.
At first the mare seems like an outlaw, but beneath her plain red coat and independent attitude, the trainer slowly uncovers a surprising streak of hidden talent and an unexpected natural balance and athletic ability. When a well-known cutting horse trainer approaches Emma's parents about training the mare for the NCHA Futurity, the family must make a difficult decision. Should they stretch their already strained budget to pay for training and futurity nomination fees? Could such a hardheaded little mare become a champion cutting horse?
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But T.J. is in for a few surprises. For starters, Gettysburg isn't the boring Civil War town he expected. A ghostly Confederate cavalier has been terrorizing nightly visitors to the battlefield. And LouAnne isn't so geeky anymore—she's become a sassy beauty who leaves him breathless.
Things escalate when the cousins, aided by T.J.'s quirky friend Bortnicker from back home in Connecticut—who also has his eye on the lovely LouAnne—attempt to solve a murder mystery that has the local police, park rangers and paranormal investigators in a panic. Because how do you stop an undead killer from 1863 from wreaking havoc in the 21st Century?
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