Taming the Star Runner entry 10.

In the my final reading of Taming the Star Runner , first off Joe is taking back to Travis , or Kens. There , still in a daze, he tells his story. Joe and the Twins started workign for Orsen who had them robbing houses. One day Joe didn't want to do i anymore and the twins said they wouldn't either. Orsen got soo mad that he drove them all up to some mountain were noone was around. They were deffenitly drunk , and high and not in the right state of mind. Orsen shot one of the twins and tryed to get Joe to shoot the other. Instead, Joe ran , hopped on a train , hich-hiked some and finally jumped out of a car on the highway when the driver started getting funny with him. Travis had to tell ken , and they came to conclusion the next day to take him in. One there way home theres a really bad storm, and Ken and Traiv run down and try to help Casey get the horse in. The star Runner escapes and Casey and Travis get in the jeep tryign to catch him adn outrun a tornadoe. The jeep flips in a ditch and Travis goes death for 2 days . After that a few days later , Travis tells that they no nothing about joe yet but Orsen is going to jail for life if not death, he still loves casey but in a different way, hes switching school when they move to town and already has a few friends, and hes starting his second book.

In the ending of the book , it doesn't directly state that the Star Runner died. It implies it a few times , but never really says.
 If i could change the end of the book i would add what is going to happen to Joe. In the book they say there still decideing weither hes juvinille or adult for his punishment but thats it. Its also a little blurry on weither Ken and Tearsa are going to get back together . I would make that more clear. I would also of said what Travis's second book would be about .
 In the end of the book Travis keeps saying over and over again and even lets out to Ken at one point what would of happend if he was there. Travis kept saying he never liked Orsen and coudl have prevented the twins death if he had been there . Not ever wishing he was but wondering. Travis keeps wondering why it wasn't him there . Its kinda of like Ken says in the book , fate , that travis was sent to live with him . If he wasn't then he could have been there with the twins if he made it that long , but might not of becasue Stan would of got to him first.

Taming The Star Runner entry 9.

In this next reading of Taming the Star Runner ( pages 140 -160 ) a few key events happen. First is the big horse show competiton. Casey is hurt but won't admitt it to anyone , at least thats what travis thinks. Casey rides the Star Runner successfully and takes a ribbon . The star Runner is a big and intimidaing horse but she does very well. Following after Travis kisses her and makes her admitt that theres soemthign between them. After that Travis learns that his uncle is going to put the house up for  sale and they will move to town somewhere , where Travis will get to try out a new school . Following that Travis gets his first interview. At first he thought if he messed up they could just film agiain , so when he learns it was live he gets extremely nervous. Concludign to the biggest even so far is Travis recieves an unexpected call from Joe. Joe is at some gas station on the highway hurt and sounds like hes sobbing. He says that he jumped out of the moving car and the twins are dead. Travis shocked and wihtout a car runs to casey and they take her jeep to go pick up Joe. Casey drives asking no questions and they bring Joe back to the houe , Travis lays him on the bed and plans to deal with what his uncle will sya later.

 I thought that somethign was going to go wrong at the horse race with The Star Runner . I thought this becasue one , the Star Runner is always reffered to a large , untamable horse. Along with the fact that Casey appears injured and thigns were for the most part going good .
  I was also surprised when casey admitted that she did like Travis . It seemed that she didn't not like him but didn't have a problem wiht him . she hardly ever called him by his name and wasn't overly friendly towards him.
 My prediction on Joes accident and everything is Travis's uncle isn't gunna take it well . I think that Ken won't want Joe there or anythign to do with him becasue of his condition , not becasue hes travis's friend. THhis might casue a bigger problem if Ken wants to send Travis home .