Half-Navajo, half-white sisters Tess and Gaby are separated when Gaby drops out of college to join the army. Now as Gaby is deployed to Iraq, she asks Tess to care for Blue, the spirited horse that Tess dislikes. Tess struggles with her identity and with missing her sister, and she decides to spend the summer with her grandmother at sheep camp where tragedy strikes.
Audience
590 Lexile.
590L Lexile
Study Program
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.0 5 182913
Accelerated Reader MG 4.0 5 182913
Note
"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Cover.
Summary
After her half-sister is deployed to Iraq, Tess agrees to care for her sister's horse Blue and take him with her when she goes to her grandmother's sheep camp for the summer, but an unexpected tragedy leads her to question her identity.