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Ruint Horse
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Amber, an observant and resilient girl about to start eighth grade, navigates the emotional fallout of her mother's volatile relationships and her father's habitual disappearances. While waiting out a storm at her grandmother's beauty parlor and enduring local gossip, Amber holds onto a quiet hope for stability and an escape from her chaotic home life. When a rainstorm threatens to ruin her belongings—which have been dumped on the roadside after her mother's latest fight—Amber risks everything to rescue her beloved, oversized stuffed horse, Spite, from a neighbor's fighting dog.