That's Not Hay in My Hair

New York city life may mean crammed sidewalks, gasoline-filled puddles, and angry taxi drivers, but Jules enjoys the towering skyscrapers, her half-block walks to school, and the restaurant smells that waft into her bedroom.

Then her mother announces their imminent move to a 300-acre ranch in Texas, where they will be caring for three horses, five dogs, and twenty-five longhorns—all by themselves.

Jules is soon running from bats and snakes, rescuing a calf from a twenty-foot ditch, medicating ponies, and dealing with the daily chaos of country living. It may take one special horse to show Jules that a Manhattan girl can survive under the wide Texas skies.