Eighth-grader Scoop lives with her aunt and grandfather on a horse farm they can barely maintain, but by trusting God and befriending a mysterious and wealthy new neighbor, Scoop finds a way to keep both the farm and her beloved horse Orphan.

A wayward and difficult horse named Ham threatens the peace at Scoop's horse farm.

After she discovers what her grandfather had been collecting in jars which appeared to be empty, Scoop understands that although he had Alzheimer's, he remembered the past.

When faced with the possible loss of Horsefeathers Stables, Scoop gets caught up in a series of white lies which she later regrets.

Scoop prays that God will keep her horses safe, solve her friend Jen's health problems, and make a wild horse trust people again.

When Scoop meets the beautiful and glamourous Twila Twopennies and is invited to help out at her lavish stables, Scoop imagines that Twila is the mother who gave her up for adoption fifteen years earlier.

Sixteen-year-old orphan Scoop, a gifted gentler of horses, does not believe that racing is good for horses, but becomes involved with the sport after she and her coworkers agree to stable and help train a special filly.

One month before sophomore year begins, Scoop volunteers to work with some newly donated horses at the Horsefeathers Stable.