ByJohn Steinbeck
Read in 8th Grade
Jody lives on a farm with his parents and Billy Buck and has been waiting for a horse of his own for a while. Then finally, one day, his father comes home with a red pony, a trick horse from a bankrupt show. Jody cares for it with all his heart, waiting for the day he can finally ride it. But, after it is accidentally left in the rain, the pony comes down with a severe illness and dies. Soon after, a nearby farmer has a pregnant horse and Jody's father, knowing how well he cared for his pony, buys the colt for Jody. So the pregnant horse comes to the farm to have her colt. For a while, all seems good, and Jody can't wait for his colt. Then, as the horse goes into labor, Billy Buck reveals that there is something wrong. The baby horse isn't turned the right way.
But he promised Jody he'd get a colt, and so, has no choice but to kill the mother. At an indefinite point in the future, Jody's grandfather comes for a visit. But his father isn't very pleased about that. His grandfather talks all the time about his trip out west in the early days of expansion.
I didn't enjoy this book very much. The character showed no progress at all, and the story ends at kind of a cliff hanger.
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