Liberty Biscuit

Does a family mystery stand in the way of saving Kipsbest friend?Katherine Pearl BakerKip for shortis the only child onher familys rural peach farm. She longs for a pet to ease the loneliness.Unfortunately, her father has an angry opposition to all animalshorses inparticular. Why he dislikes them is a confounding mystery.Hiding in the woods on the Fourth of July, Kip encounters abedraggled donkey with one eye and a floppy ear. Immediately smitten andcompelled to protect him, she feeds him biscuits and takes him home. When it isdiscovered the donkey fled an abusive owner, Kips father finally relents,reluctantly allowing him to stay.Kip is elated when her grandfather agrees to help her fosterthe donkey, who she names Liberty Biscuit, along with two emaciated horsesremoved by the local sheriff from the same home, as the cruelty case goes tocourt. While caring for the animals, Kips happiness is overshadowed by ashocking discovery in a trunk in the family farms haylofta faded photographof her father as a boy that reveals secrets long kept.A court order to return the horses, and even worse, Kipsbeloved Liberty Biscuit, to the owner who had starved and beaten them, throws Kipsworld into turmoil. She knows she must find a way to keep them, or she willhave betrayed the best friend she has ever had. But saving the animals meansrisking the complete unraveling of her family as she exposes the long-buriedtruth about a tragic accident and a hurt like shes never known before.