Keeping Barney

By Jessie Haas

Book Overview

In Holt, Colorado, Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone. In the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux finds herself pregnant and homeless. Whilst Tom's sons find their way forward without their mother, quiet and gentle Harold and Raymond McPheron agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives are about to change forever. A novel of haunting beauty, Plainsong explores the grace and hope of every human life and mankind's infinity capacity for love.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688008593
• ISBN13: 9780688008598
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Realistic and very amusing

This book is true to life. It gives you a good idea of what taking care of a horse is really like. It is also amusing and quite enjoyable to read. Sarah (the main character) learns, as a result of the horse's antics, that sometimes it's the horses that aren't perfect that teach you the most. I recommend this book to any horse lover!

This book was about a girl who loved horses.

Sarah was crazy about horses. She saw an ad about taking care of a horse for the winter. She asked her parents if she could take care of the horse and they said yes. At first, Sarah thought that Barney wasn't a good horse. After a while, Sarah got used to Barney's personality. It wasn't easy for Sarah because Barney was a stubborn horse. Sarah received help in understanding Barney from Barney's owner.

This book will teach you to love horses for who they are.

Horse crazy Sarah finally gets to keep a horse for the winter, but this horse, Barney, isn't the horse of her dreams. Sarah thinks that Barney is a bad horse because of his dispotion. With a little help from Barney and his owner, Sarah realizes that Barney is just fine the way he is and starts to love him and his personality.