Blue Moon

by Marilyn Halvorson

Book Overview

Bobbie Joe didn't set out to buy a limping blue roan mare; she wanted a colt she could train to barrel race. But the horse is a fighter. Now all Bobbie Joe has to do is train the sour old mare that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551433206
• ISBN13: 9781551433202
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Length: 109 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

The Responsibility of Being an Animal Lover.

Growing up can have a harsh reality when taking responsibility of an animal. It is not always fun and games it is very hard and frustrating work. For a young person that is a very big responsibility to know that the life of this animal is in your hands. Bobby Joe is a teenage girl with a heart for barrel racing. She had saved her money for years for that great horse. Then Bobby Joe's parents let her go to her first horse sell by herself. She came home with a beaten up old mare and $690 short. At the horse sell Bobby Joe had to ask Cole for so money. Cole is this boy that she does not like. He work at the horse sell and he was the only person there she knew so she had to ask him for the money, which she did not like. When at home she set her mind to have a barrel racing horse by the end of summer. Things were going good through the summer with the horse and she was going to go to the barrel races. Her and Cole had become good friends and were always together, but then one-day things started going wrong. Then she finds out that the horse show is in a few weeks. What is she going to do and will she be able to go? Taking the responsibility of buying and raising a horse is a big thing. When taking the responsibility of owning a horse and the things that can happen will make you grow up and face reality. This is a great book to read. Anyone that likes horse will love this book and will not want to put it down. Even if you don not horse this book will show you the love people have for their animals.