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    A Blue for Beware
    A Blue for Beware
    A Blue for Beware
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    A Blue for Beware

    By Jessie Haas

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    Named to the West Virginia Children’s Book Award Master List: In the first horse show with her new mare, Lily competes against her best friend for the blue ribbon

    Today’s the big day. Lily and her horse, Beware, are going to compete in the junior horse show. Lily’s best friend, Mandy, is also in the competition, riding her horse, Shane. When Lily and her mother and grandfather arrive, Mandy looks so grown up, like a rider in a magazine. And with his shining copper coat, Shane looks just like a show horse. Worried that Beware looks shaggy next to Shane, Lily brushes her until she’s sleek and polished.
     
    Then it’s time for Lily to get ready. She puts on her breeches and boots and tries to remember everything her grandfather taught her about riding. Will Lily and Beware walk away with the blue? And will Lily and Mandy still be best friends when it’s over?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateSep 2, 2014
    ISBN9781497662643
    A Blue for Beware
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    Jessie Haas

    Jessie Haas is the author of numerous acclaimed books for young people, including Unbroken, which was a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, a Parent's Choice Gold Award winner, a Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, and CCBC Choice. Her most recent novel, Shaper, won a Golden Kite Honor Award.

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      A Blue for Beware - Jessie Haas

      CHAPTER ONE

      THE SIGN POINTS toward the ball field behind the library. JUNIOR HORSE SHOW TODAY. Lily’s stomach jumps, and she clutches the door handle of Gramp’s big old truck. At last she is really here. The horse show is about to happen.

      The truck creaks and rumbles onto the ball field. A cool gray mist hangs low. It makes the grass look very green. Other colors are bright, too: red bandages on a dapple gray horse; shiny blue, maroon, and silver trailers; the rusty brown snow fence ring that Gramp helped set up last night.

      Gramp parks the truck. When the engine shuts off, Lily can hear Beware in the back, crunching hay.

      See Mandy anywhere? Gramp asks. Lily is looking, as her fingers fumble at the seat belt. Nearby is a trailer that looks like Mandy’s. Standing beside it is a chestnut horse that looks a little like Shane. But the horse’s tail is braided, and so is his mane, in little short braids evenly spaced along his neck. Mandy doesn’t know how to make those braids.

      Gramp hops out of the truck. "Hey, Woodie!" somebody yells. Everywhere Gramp goes, somebody knows him.

      Lily climbs down on her side of the truck. She can’t bring Beware out until Gramp is through talking. Just for a minute there is nothing to do but look.

      There are horses everywhere: tied to trailers; cloaked in bright blankets; being led somewhere; being groomed. All the horses look tall and beautiful.

      There are kids in breeches and crisp white shirts. Kids in chaps and cowboy hats. Parents bundled up in sweaters, with thermoses of coffee. Parents in shorts and goose bumps.

      Under a yellow striped tent near the ring, a crowd of kids and parents gathers. Mandy might be over there, signing up for classes, getting her number. Last year, Lily remembers, they stood in line together. They were sharing Lily’s old pony, and right up to the last minute they couldn’t decide who should ride in which class.

      But if Mandy is there, Lily does not see her.

      Thump! Beware stamps inside the truck.

      Guess the little mare wants out, Gramp says. In a moment Lily hears the chain on the tailgate rattle. She starts toward the back of the truck.

      "Lily!"

      Lily turns. A girl in white breeches and a dark coat and hat is coming toward her. The girl leads the braided chestnut horse. It’s Mandy! But she looks so grown-up. She looks like a rider in a magazine, and Shane looks like a magazine show horse.

      Lily, you don’t have your riding clothes on! Mandy’s eyes are very bright, and she seems to have even more freckles than usual.

      Mom and Gran are bringing them, Lily says. She can’t stop looking at Shane’s braids.

      Doesn’t he look great? Mandy says. Her teeth are almost chattering, she is so excited. My mother did it! From a book!

      Oh, says Lily.

      Beware’s hooves thud inside the truck as Gramp turns her. Now he leads her down the ramp.

      Beware’s coat glows dark red. Her mane hangs long and black down the side of her neck. When Gramp led Beware into the truck half an hour ago, Lily thought her mane looked beautiful. Now it seems shaggy and messy.

      Gramp ties Beware to the side of the truck. Hi, Mandy, he says, and: Lily, better not stand there like a bump on a log. You’ve got to get this horse ready!

      Now it’s time to hurry. Lily brushes Beware all over, with the currycomb, the hard brush, the soft brush. When she brushes Beware’s belly, Beware curves her neck around and scratches Lily’s arm with her bristly upper lip. Beware loves to have her belly scratched.

      But Lily doesn’t have time. She gets out a soft piece of

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