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You won’t forget “A Horse to Remember.” How can a teenager survive when she’s uprooted from her friends and the shopping malls in Delaware and transplanted to rural Tennessee? Hilary Thompson, the heroine of A Horse to Remember, knows nothing about horses, but resolves this dilemma when she goes to work cleaning horse stalls at the stables next door to her new home. Here she meets Satan, a lonely, frightened Mustang stallion who needs a new friend as much as she does. This relationship transforms her life. She decides to tame him and train them both to compete in jumping events.Hilary works with the mustang in secret, first earning his trust and then his affection, until finally she is able to ride him. When Satan’s owner threatens to sell him at auction, where he would no doubt be sold and slaughtered, her secret has to be revealed in order to save him. As Hilary and Satan learn new riding skills together, they also discover the values of determination, persistence, and unconditional love

After her family relocates to the small country town of Lewisberg, Tennessee, Hilary Thompson, who has lived and thrived in the city the entire thirteen years of her life, feels as if her world has stopped turning. When she begins working at the local stables owned by Susan Collins, she meets Satan, a wild mustang stallion who belongs to Susan s rebellious son, Jeremy. Satan seems as lonely and out-of-place in his new surroundings as Hilary is in hers. When Jeremy fails to tame Satan, and his mother threatens to sell the horse, Hilary resolves to tame him. But can a girl who knows nothing about horses gain the trust of an aggressive mustang? And will she be able to keep her efforts a secret? Encouraged by a new friendship and suffering the aggravation of a new rival, Hilary spends increasingly more time with the stallion. As her affection for the mustang grows, she learns about horses, people, and the greatest lesson of all, unconditional love.