Finding Luck by Kristin Earhart

Author:Kristin Earhart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

The next morning on the school bus, Sarah begged Willa to go on the trip. “You have to,” Sarah said, grasping Willa’s hand. “Dad is taking me and Chipper. Kids hardly ever get to go to the roundups on the island. It’d be so much fun to be there together.”

Grandma had explained the details to Willa on the phone. The volunteer fire department of Chincoteague helped take care of the ponies. Three times a year a group of volunteers and local veterinarians gathered the wild ponies for checkups. The roundup in the middle of the summer included the great pony swim, when all the horses and ponies of the southern herd swam across the bay to Chincoteague.

The spring roundup was not as complicated. While the events of the pony swim took the entire weekend, this spring roundup would be done in a day. All the ponies would stay on Assateague.

“We can take our walkie-talkies,” Chipper said to Ben. The idea made Ben smile. Now that he knew Chipper would be there, he wanted to go more than ever. He glanced at Willa. He could tell she hadn’t decided.

“I’m not sure,” Willa tried to explain. “My parents never hired a server for the inn, and Dad might need to run some last-minute errands. They might need me.”

“You need a waitress?” Chipper asked, overhearing the girls’ conversation. “Katherine keeps telling Mom she needs a job. She wants to buy a car.” Katherine was the oldest of the Starling kids.

“Is that true?” Willa asked Sarah.

“Well, yeah,” Sarah replied. “She does.”

“That’s huge!” she exclaimed. “I’ll bet Mom would hire her in a second.” With that good news, Willa felt like things would come together. She felt like she and Ben could enjoy a trip to Assateague with Grandma and their friends. She convinced herself that Mom and Dad could take care of the last-minute details by themselves. They were grown-ups, after all.

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