by Jason Altizer (Illustrator), Julia Trant Everheart (Author)
Joey Austin is growing up in Hatteras Village on the Outer Banks. She and her brother care for their family's three Banker Ponies, the descendants of Spanish horses that swam ashore from shipwrecks in the colonial days. The ponies are the center of Joey's world. But when Hurricane Alma looms off the coast, how will Joey protect them from the storm of the century?
Author Biography
Julia Everheart grew up on Hatteras Island, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina and resides in Kennesaw, Georgia with her husband, two children, two horses, three dogs, and two hamsters. She hopes her books inspire a love of reading and of the natural world, especially the beautiful Outer Banks.