The Girl Who Galloped

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"All too soon the ride ended and Jeremy slipped off, took Rachel’s head in his hands and actually kissed her nose. She could have fainted…her first kiss!" The Girl Who Galloped."

(Upper elementary & middle school age readership) By Deb Gerace geraced@gmail.com

Rachel Renfro is an 11 yr. old girl who, like so many girls, is so involved with horses without actually owning one that she imagines herself a horse. In spite of the approaching pressures of adolescence and the departure of other girlfriends who are suddenly swept in the teen-age world of Jr. High and boys, Rachel gallops on alone in her imagination. Her little brother, Benjy, would love to join her and admires her fantasy world, but Rachel never really lets him inside. One late autumn morning, on one of her forays into the woods where she acts out her fantasy, she comes upon an enchanted place and become the horse she dreams she is. Now she is faced with cold hard reality as she cannot communicate with anyone and must search for food, find shelter and avoid neighborhood dogs and aggressive children. She is captured by a local farmer and Benjy comes to see her and guesses who she is. Through Benjy, Rachel manages to escape the farmer after he sells pony rides on her. As a result of the escape, she has a hair-raising adventure trying to cross the Interstate Highway to find grazing land. After that frightening adventure, Benjy smuggles food to the woods to help her survive and later, brings Jeremy, an 8th grade boy, into the picture at the suggestion of his Cub Scout Den Mother. Jeremy works with Thoroughbreds on a horse farm down-state where his father is a trainer. Although Jeremy is helpful and Rachel is attracted to this boy and loves that he is a horse-person as well, she finds her fantasy not at all what she thought it would be and finally manages to find the enchanted place and become a young girl again. This story is written for all those girls from middle school up to early high school, who are still out there, running in their dreams with The Girl Who Galloped!''

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Deb Gerace's creative life has taken her from singing seasonal songs on excursion trains to being the Artist-In-Residence at Glacier National Park, where she created tunes that teach about the nature of Glacier to school kids the world over via the national park's educational website. To hear a sample, google glacier songs and take a listen for yourself!As one-third of the trio Vintage Vocals and writer-arranger for the same, Deb has squeezed her writing in between teaching and performance for years, but now finally has the time to concentrate on her first love: writing!

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Writing...Singing....Writing....Teaching....Writing....Camping....This author offers a good read for all kinds of tastes.

Difficult to categorize because of its diversity, Readers Roost consists of plays, articles, books, poetry & music sometimes rather outside the box. Regardless, the contents are always thoughtful, funny, risque, educational or inspirational as one would expect from a writer who occupations ranged from teaching in a middle school classroom and writing and reading her articles on the air for Public Broadcasting, to singing professionally in clubs, military bases and corporate events. And did we mention she is also an outdoorswoman & camper?