She lives with her brothers Gabe and Finn, although Gabe is planning to leave for the mainland. They are barely getting by, struggling just to get enough money for food.
They are also one of the few families on Thisby that own a car, albeit a very old one on the verge of breaking down. Profession… craftswoman and racer.
Interests… riding around on her horse Dove, racing against Finn in his car. Relationship Status… single. Challenge… earning enough money to keep her family together on Thisby Island.
The races are dangerous, too— water horses are difficult to control, and some riders die. Personality… stubborn, competitive, and brave. It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Finn couldn't be much younger than 14 since he's always drivi In some places a girl would be married already by then depending on customs, etc. As for it being believable or not in a book that they'd be too young to take care of themselves; you should try by in it the main character, Dicey Tillerman takes care of her three younger siblings and takes them on a cross country trek one summer, on foot, with no money , to a long-lost relative's house after their mother leaves them abandoned in their car in a supermarket shopping center and she was only It was very believable.
Granted, I WAS only 12 when I read 'Homecoming' and had no clue what fending for yourself entails; I remember being very enamored of the 'runaway kid living off the land' idea. A favorite book of mine back then was 'My Side of the Mountain'. Jul 11, PM. Ami wrote: "Athalvard wrote: "I always imagined Puck being and Finn being years old.
Finn couldn't be much younger than 14 since I'd say at least Jul 29, AM. I had just assumed 16 Feb 22, PM. So I'm currently reading Scorpio Races for the 8th time. I always imagined her as 16 maybe I don't think Peg or anybody else would support the idea of a 12 years old or even a 14 years old girl riding in a races where even adult men die. Sean won 4 times, so he won his first race at age And remember that he always had a hand for the water horses. Even when his dad died and he was 10 Corr didn't eat his father because Sean asked him not to.
There's also a situation where Puck describes that her hands aren't a child's hand but her mother's. And that she knows that she has her mothers face. At the start of the novel, Puck and Finn are the ones to spot that the capaill uisce are returning, signalling the start of the race season, after they raced each other to the beach for the first time in nearly a year Finn won.
Puck gets slightly infuriated, and entranced, when Finn and Gabe communicate in their own "unspoken language". She hates it when Gabe has to clean fish as it makes the whole house smell. A smile walks over one side of his face but not the other.
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