Red Horse Hill

There's nothing for a Boston orphan but trouble, so fifteen-year-old Bud does what any restless kid would do: he hops a freight train and rides it straight into the hills of New Hampshire. What he finds there is a world he never knew existed, where the smell of hay and leather means something, where men speak in whispers to horses, and where a battered sulky named Red Meteor might be his ticket to belonging. Meader captures the pure, engine-revving thrill of harness racing with the precision of someone who loved every second of it. Bud isn't just learning to drive; he's learning that family isn't always blood, and that home can be a place you choose. It's a Depression-era tale with timeless heart: a boy with nothing finding everything he needed was waiting in the next town over.