As Wild Girl begins, Lidie is just leaving her home and all she has ever known to go live with her father and brother in the United States. She has waited years for them to have her join them, but it seems they only remember her as a little girl who loves pink and Minnie Mouse and they don't even know that she can ride!
Riding horses is huge in this family. Her father is a trainer, and her brother Rafi is a jockey. Lidie loves horses too, especially the family's new horse Wild Girl, which, in fact, is what Lidie's mother used to call her: wild girl.
But nothing seems to be going right for Lidie. School is terrifying and no one even seems to try to understand her. Everything she does seems to be wrong, and her father is certainly not the man she remembered him to be.
As Lidie makes her way from Brazil to New York, Wild Girl has also been on a journey: from South Carolina. It is the connection between these two, the girl and the horse, that help Lidie begin to feel at home in her new surroundings.
This is a wonderful story of friendship, family...and horses. Now really, what better story could there be?
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