Summer Reading Entry Two

The two main characters in my book The Scorpio Races are Sean Kendrick and Kate Connolly. Sean Kendrick is a sort of mysterious person who is attached to the magical horses or capiall uisce on the island but especially Corr. The island is Sean’s home and the horses are like his family because he works on a horse farm for Mr. Malvern. His father was killed in the races when he was 10 years old and he will never forget it. Sean has won the race 4 times which is more than any other racer. The thing he wants most is to own his favorite horse which is Corr who is currently owned by Mr. Malvern. Kate Connolly goes by Puck and is an orphaned child along with her two brothers, one younger Finn, and one older Gabe. They are poor and barely getting by which is why Gabe has decided to leave them to go to the mainland. But in efforts to keep him around and to get some much needed money, Puck enters the Scorpio Races with her normal horse named Dove and is the first girl to ever enter the Scorpio Races which shows how brave she really is. The thing she wants most is to win the race this year to get the money for her family and to keep her older brother from leaving them. The main theme that is starting to appear is to never give up and not let people bring you down because Puck is a long shot to win and people judged her and made fun of her for entering the race because she is a girl and is using her normal horse instead of a capiall uisce. My book is structured with a prologue of when Sean saw his dad die in a race. Then it alternates every chapter between Puck and Sean giving their account of what’s happening. It is written in first person point of view.