Stephanie's Reviews > Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague

Something inspired me to pick up the Misty books right when I needed them. In "Sea Star", Misty is leaving but the children find an orphan colt to take care of. Grandpa relates it to his own life at the end:

"Me and yer Grandma have had a good many head of children ... but when each one went off to work or war, we always got a little dread inside us. Lasted for days. But then... ... Always somebody was left behind to stay a spell with us ... and the empty feelin' was gone."

And here I am with my oldest just starting her first full time job; my second, who just got married, moving out; my third moving to a new apartment, and school starting this week for my 5 remaining kids including a Senior, a Freshman and my youngest, who just started Kindergarten, leaving my house empty during the day for the first time in 23 years (I'm not counting preK half days). I have at least 12 years to go before we have a truly empty feeling (and I'll surely be a Grandma by then), but it was such a good book to read in the midst of all these transitions!

Same narrator as the first book did a wonderful job, again.