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A Publishers Weekly Best Book and Parents Choice Gold Award: Following her mother’s death, a thirteen-year-old has to adjust to life on a farm—and tame a wild young coltIt’s 1910, and Harriet Gibson, orphaned by the death of her mother in a horse-and-buggy accident, is sent to live on a relative’s hillside Vermont farm with her two-year-old colt. Grieving her loss, Harry now has to adjust to a new life and make new friends. And Aunt Sarah is a harsh taskmaster. Desperate to get away from her stern, domineering aunt, Harry decides to break in her untrained young Morgan so she can ride the seven miles to her new school. But an accident will force Harry to adapt once more as she makes surprising discoveries about her aunt . . . and a family secret comes to light. This is a stunning novel about love, loss, and blood ties—and about how even when the heart is shattered, the human spirit remains unbroken.

One morning while at school Harriet Gibson receives some very bad news. Her mother and the horse she was driving have been killed in a mishap with an automobile. Now Harriet's mother and Belle, the mare, are dead, and Harriet and Belle's unbroken colt are orphans. Harriet is devastated to learn that the home she and her mother made together is to be sold, and that she must go to live with her Aunt Sarah, her long-deceased father's sister. Harriet knows that Sarah didn't like her mother and doesn't want her. Harriet moves to her unsympathetic aunt's farm, bringing with her the two things she values most: her mother's sewing machine, and the unbroken colt. But how will she convince Aunt Sarah that she needs to continue going to school?