Wild Horse Summer

My teacher read this book to us last year and I loved it! I deserves 5 stars because of all the adventure.

In Wild Horse Summer, ten-year-old Josephine Barkley puts into practice a set of values fundamentally necessary to success in life. Josephine lives on a small farm during the years of the Great Depression. She wants a pony to take to the fair. With the help of her friend Bobby, she tries several schemes to get a pony, including chasing a wild horse! When Grandpa offers Josephine a summer job to earn one of his ponies she thinks her problem is finally solved. But her mother comes down with pneumonia and Josephine must face a decision -- is family more important than her pony? Highly recommended for school and community libraries, Neva Andrews' Wild Horse Summer is a very nicely written and thoroughly engaging novel for young readers, with well-paced plotting and realistic, believable characters for whom we come to identify with and care about.

This book was exciting. My favorite part was she recieved her pig My 6th grade class has not finished it,but love it so far.