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Eager Star (Winnie the Horse Gentler, Book 2)

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This book is SO good! The entire series would be an awesome Christmas/birthday gift! It gives Christian values, with added horse bonus, and real life expierences, Winnie is a young girl with a dead mother, whom she wishes to follow, and so she gentles horses,these books are written by Dandi Daley Mackall, a wonderful writer, enjoy this book, and all others, with Christian values and horses!

Winnie tries to adjust to her 7th grade year in a new school. She wonders why her sister Lizzie always finds it so easy to make friends, when she would rather talk to horses than people. Winnie thinks the only way she can fit in at school is to train a horse for Grant Baines, the most popular boy in school. But she only has one week in which to do this. Will she have enough time? Readers will find that once they start this book, they won't be able to set it down. And when they do finish EAGER STAR, they'll know they need to read the whole series!

We found the Winnie series on Amazon and absolutely love it. The books are heartwarming with great character development. My daughter - 13 - is an avid horse lover and the author clearly has her horse facts right on. We recommend starting with the first book in the series - Wild Thing - but this isn't absolutely necessary.

This is book two in the "Winnie the Horse Gentler" series. It is aimed at girls ages 8-12 and about a junior high girl who can make impossible horses into good ones. Her mother has died, and she learned how to do this from her mother.

In this book, it's the start of the school year and her classmate, Grant, is to be riding in a barrell race. However, his horse "Eager Star" doesn't want to cooperate. She even bucks Grant off of her at one point in the book. Winnie's job is to make this horse that is frightened and nervous into a winner in one week.

Also during the course of the book Winnie gets off on the wrong foot with her English teacher, and wouldn't you know it, but she turns in the WRONG journal this woman, which doesn't make things any better for Winnie.

She also plans a slumber party, inviting the most popular girls in school. That doesn't go quite as expected for her.

This was an enjoyable book even though I'm not the target age range. It is a quick read, and one that girls who love horses would be especially fond of. I am looking forward to reading the rest of this series.

I am buying this series for my granddaughters after reading them all myself on Kindle. It is good to find books which are so good and so relevant to this age group and are not about witches, wizards, monsters and vampires.

Another good book in the series. I enjoyed how the main character, Winnie, compares her new middle school classmates and teachers to different kinds of horses. This book had a great theme on how you can't impress God and that you don't need to impress others. I hope my daughter reads this book one day if she loves horses.

Eager star is a great follow up book for Wild Thing. It has readers falling in love with the characters. I can't wait to see what Winnie dose next!