Wendy is a 12 year old who thinks the world of her sorrel gelding. In fact, she feels he’s the best in Colorado and will win at the local rodeo in the barrel racing. There’s one small obstacle in the way of Wendy’s desire – her mother’s insistence that she can’t enter. In the Best Horse, Wendy battles to train her gelding, raise the funds to enter the event and most importantly, to convince her mother.
When the young girl finds out an interesting secret about her mother’s past, she questions how she can possibly say no to Wendy competing. Wendy finds her mother’s resolve weakening and is ecstatic. But another problem looms – her gelding’s lack of desire to barrel race.
Wendy just knows that she can win if she can convince her horse that she’s in control. It’s only as the local hand and long time friend to the family point’s out that Wendy’s lack of desire to change to suit what her mother wants is the same as her desire to force her horse to do something that he has no desire to do.
The Best Horse
The Best Horse is a great look at a 12 year old’s desperate desire to do something incredible with her horse. The relationship of Wendy and her mother is explored, as well as the issue of obedience and consequences for disobedience. For readers who don’t know about barrel racing, they learn what is involved in the event and the end of the story is a great outcome.
Author – Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/65918.Elizabeth_Van_Steenwyk
Fiction – children
In my library? – indeed it is, as a paperback.
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“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” ― Adlai E. Stevenson II
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