Hoof Beat by Bonnie Bryant

Author:Bonnie Bryant [Bryant, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-82486-8
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-09-25T14:00:00+00:00

Lisa leaned back from her desk and reread the words she’d written. It was true. Every word of it. That was what journalists were supposed to do. They were supposed to write what was true.

She was a journalist.

STEVIE AND CAROLE talked to one another on the phone early on Friday—as soon as each of them had read Lisa’s latest column.

“I can’t believe it,” Carole said. “It’s worse than the last one!”

“She’s going to be in so much trouble—and she’s making trouble for everybody else. She makes Pine Hollow sound like a den of thieves!”

“We’ve got to talk some sense into her,” said Carole.

“You can only talk to somebody who’s listening,” Stevie said. “And the last time I talked to her about her column, I can tell you, she wasn’t listening.”

“That must have been the time she said that you and I ‘didn’t understand the principles of journalism.’ ”

“Either then, or the time she was sure that anybody who criticized her was just jealous of her success.”

Carole shook her head. “It’s just not like Lisa to be so stubborn.”

“You’re right about that. There’s just no talking to her at all.”

“It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try,” Carole said.

Stevie agreed. It was clear that something had to be done, and it was going to be better if Lisa’s friends did it. She and Carole discussed the best approach.

According to her mother’s magazines, Stevie told Carole, this situation called for the careful use of psychology. Carole was ready to try it a few hours later when they all met at the stable.

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