Book about two girls who love horses and art but are competing against each other in an art contest. I think their names are Lori and Darlene. Lori desperately loves and wants to buy a Palomino but has to work (saving cedar shingles off old barns?) to earn money but someone is burning old barns down and burns some of the shingles she has collected and jeopardizes her chance of getting the Palomino. Also remember “Lori’s” dad making her an art loft in the barn, then “Darlene” gets her dad to make her a fancy, much-better studio. Book references Ephesians 4:31-32. General story about competition between hard-working girl from a working family versus a rich girl who gets everything she wants.
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This could be ‘Pounding Hooves’ by Dorothy G. Johnston. “A young girl knows she can trust God to help her overcome the disappointment if she can’t earn the money to buy a spirited Arabian mare.” There is a rivalry between Lori and the rich girl Darlene who also wants to buy the horse.
Found on the Solved pages: Dorothy Grunbock Johnston, Pounding Hooves, 1976.
It is “Pounding Hooves”- thank you! Can’t believe I let my childhood copy get away. Am looking forward to sharing it with my daughter.