And they have just as much right to learn as you do. Meredith raised her chin and repeated the words she’d heard her father say countless times. Hiram’s face scrunched up like a pumpkin that had started to rot. Yeah? Hiram stopped skipping and glared at Meredith. Angry tears pooled in her eyes, but Meredith blinked them away. Even Anna Leigh, her desk mate and the one girl Meredith thought a friend. Meredith asked for help, but they just stood there smirking and whispering behind their schoolbooks. A group of girls came around the bend and stopped to giggle behind their hands. Meri, Meri, quite contrary, Hiram sang in a ridiculously high-pitched voice, skipping in a circle around her and swinging the lunch bucket back and forth. Probably because the land they bought used to belong to his best friend’s family. He’d had it out for her ever since her family moved to the area last spring. She thought she’d gotten enough of a lead today after school, but Hiram must have been watching for her. Why was she always the one to get picked on? Meredith stomped her foot in frustration. Meredith ricocheted between the two, never quite fast enough to get more than a finger on the tin. She lunged for it, but her hands met only air as the older boy snatched it away and tossed it over her head to his snickering brother.
Did you want this? His voice dripped sarcasm as he dangled the small pail in front of her. Hiram Ellis! Give me back my lunch bucket this instant! Ten-year-old Meredith Hayes balled her hands into fists as she faced her tormentor. This is a great Historical Western Romantic Story, with a few shoot outs thrown in!I received this book from the Publisher Bethany House, and was not required to give a positive review. Low and behold there is now a female living with them. Which of the brother's held the short-straw?I loved how even without leaving their land they held Sunday services.
She heads to the Archer's land and warns them.When a turn of events end up with Meri injured and in a compromising position.
Her Uncle has found a match for her, and when she over hears him and a worker planing to burn down the Archer's barn.she needs to do something. He ends up bring her home and breaking a promise he made his father to never leave the land!Forward twelve years and we find Meri living with her Uncle and Aunt after loosing her parents. One of the Archer's did come to her rescue, Travis. One boy grabs her lunch pail and give it a heave, and where does it go? On Archer land.Meri does not dare to go home without her pail.but how does she go where she is bound to be shot? In the end Meri didn't get shot but does get a life time injury. The story begins when Meredith Hays is just a little girl and being bullied. Such a sweet, enjoyable read that I didn't want to end.
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