Bold Beauty - Paperback

by Dandi Daley Mackall (Author)

Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. She can gentle the wildest mare, but other parts of life don't always come as easily. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom--who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted as well. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities fill Winnie's life with friendship and adventure.

#3 Bold Beauty--Winnie's confidence begins to crumble as she faces the toughest challenge of her horse-gentling career and her first failure. Winnie slips into a web of deceit and distress until she discovers the true source of genuine confidence.

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I couldn''t let anyone know what I''d done. I''d worked so hard to gain their trust, I couldn''t risk losing it now.
Winnie Willis has confidence to spare-on horseback that is. If only she could have the same self-assurance at school. When Winnie gets a dreaded school assignment, her whole world is affected. Worse, an accident on horseback shatters the one area of her life where everything was going fine. Now she''ll have to find the courage outside herself to face her classmates and the horse she let down. 9780842355452|JB|What was wrong with Dad and Lizzy, anyway? Had they changed so much that they didn''t even miss Mom anymore?
Staying at Coolidge Castle is weird enough. But having Dad away on Mom''s birthday is too much. Then Winnie meets Ramon. He also knows what it''s like to lose a parent. So when someone begins sabotaging his chances to follow in his mother''s footsteps as a star circus performer, Winnie is determined to find out who it is.
As accusations fly, Winnie''s mind races in circles . . . until she begins to realize things aren''t always what they seem. 9780842355469|JB|Ms. Brumby tapped her shoe in class. Guess we have an odd number."
I knew who the odd number was. We all did.
Winnie Willis has always considered horses her best friends. But lately the world seems to be pairing off, and she''s the only one left out. After all, her sister, Lizzy, now has a "best friend"; and Madeline, her dad''s inventor "friend," keeps showing up. But Hawk, Winnie''s only hope for a friend, has been acting as strange as her horse.
What''s wrong with Hawk and Towaco? If Winnie wants a chance for a "best friend," she has to untangle the mystery.