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Tonight, we'll read the opening to Stormy, Misty's Full,

a children's novel written by Marguerite Henry and published in 1963.

The Chincatee Pony, also known as the Assateague Horse Course is a breed of horse that developed and now lives within a

semi-ferral island population of the U.S. States of Virginia and Maryland.

The Chincatee pony is one of many breeds of feral horses in the United States,

but it was made famous by the series of pony books written by this author about Misty, the mother of Stormy.

The story describes events on the island during a powerful storm in 1962.

Let's get cozy.

close your bed. Now take a few deep breaths.

a few deep breaths. In the gigantic Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of Virginia, a sliver of land lies exposed to the smile of the sun and the

fury of wind and tide. It almost missed being an island, for it is only inches above the sea.

The early Indians who pulled over from the mainland to hunt deer and otter and beaver named

this wind-rumpled island Chin-Coteague, the land across the water. Today a

causeway, five miles long, connects it with the eastern shore of Virginia.

Sometimes when the sea breaks loose

it swallows the causeway.

Then the people on the island are wholly isolated.

But most of the time, Chincoteague enjoys the protection of a neighbor island, a great long

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