A Coming-of-Age story for Baby Boomers and grown-up girls who love horses

A shy girl with red hair, blue eyes and creamy white skin, she tries to live down her name. She has few friends until the "best day of her life," when she receives a pony, and becomes The Pony Girl. Her new status eventually changes, though, when the novelty wears off for the neighborhood children. Does Candy care? She has the horse she's wanted all of her life, loving parents and a wonderful grandmother.

Then tragedy strikes with a death in the family, and shortly after a move to another location where Candy must start her sophomore year at a school where she will be the new girl.