I was in the West. The Old West. The Wild West! A whole
summer in a new place: a place away from my parents, a place so hot
the girls probably wore bikinis to church, a place where I'd take a
giant step toward my dream: becoming a vet. A place where — who
knows? — anything might happen.
From the moment
sixteen-year-old Billy steps off the train in Tucson, he knows this
will be a summer unlike any he's seen in small-town Bradleyville,
Missouri. For starters, he's staying with his cool gay uncle, who has
managed to get him a job at the racetrack caring for horses. Still,
Billy doesn't expect the horseracing world to be quite as rough and
tumble as this — toiling side by side with a macho survivalist
and falling hard for the feisty, romance-shy "exercise girl"
Cara Mae. With his trademark fast-paced dialogue filled with wit and
compassion, Ron Koertge tells the tale of an insecure teen who
discovers that gaining stature involves more than Stetsons and boots
— and that lessons on love and manhood come from the places you
least expect.
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