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Wind Dancer, a book review
In Wind Dancer, Chris Platt introduces Ali and her friend, Cara. Ali used to love horses, but then hers had to be put down after breaking his leg. Ali’s older brother, Danny, has come back from the war in Afghanistan, with less body parts than he left with. When Ali’s parents ask her to care for two abused and neglected horses, she tries not to get attached to them. Can the horses help both Ali […] Read more »
Dark Horse, book review, by Dandi Daley Mackall
In the fourth book of the Starlight Animal Rescue series, sixteen-year-old Hank Coolidge meets his cousin’s friend, Winnie the Horse Gentler. I must say, their email relationship is better than their face-to-face relationship. After the barn burns down, Hank is set on finding out who and why the barn burned. While he is working on that, Winnie the Horse Gentler is trying to get through to a horse, Cleopatra, who had been in the burning barn. […] Read more »
Runaway, book review
I really enjoy this book by Dandi Daley Mackall. The book is part of the Starlight Animal Rescue series. It’s about a girl named Dakota Brown. She used to love horses, but then she lost everything; her family, her home, and her hope for a good future. When she gets taken to Starlight Animal Rescue, her new foster home. She plans to run away from the moment she sets foot on the animal rescue. While […] Read more »
Horsefeathers, book review
I really enjoy reading the book by Dandi Daley Mackall called Horsefeathers. It’s about a fourteen-year-old girl named Sarahh Coop (Scoop for short). She was adopted, but then her adoptive parents died. So her aunt comes to live with her and her little brother, B.C.. When the farm her grandfather owns is in danger of being used as land for Dalton Stables, Scoop must find a way to save it, and her beautiful horse, Orphan. […] Read more »
Shooting Star
This story received honorable mention in a writing contest, the It’s All Write writing contest. Hope you enjoy it! Note: I have an audio of part of this, attached. I’d never really liked staying in one place for a long period of time. I suppose that was a good thing, because my family traveled a lot for my father’s job. But I’d always wanted a forever friend, someone who would always be there with me. […] Read more »
Winnie the Horse Gentler, Series Review
I really enjoy reading the Winnie the Horse Gentler series, by Dandi Daley Mackall. I even gave it the Oldberry Award of the month! The eight-book series stars a fictional girl named Winifred Willis. After her mother, a famous horse gentler, died in a car accident, her father moved them away from their home in Wyoming, moving them to all the I states in America, before finally settling down in the small town of Ashland, […] Read more »
Tilda’s Babyshower Blues
The day I went to my mother’s babyshower was the worst day of my week. Chaotic things were always happening at our house. but that babyshower was the worst! It was not the actual babyshower that was the problem, but my getting to the babyshower, gift and all. Let me explain. My mother, Anna-marie, has had about five babyshowers so far, but after we use the things people give us, my mother gives them away. […] Read more »