It should be so easy. You pick out a really great-looking baby farm animal and raise it with all the right food, exercise, and attention. Then you take the groomed creature to the county fair and walk off with a champion ribbon, showing what a good job you have done.
But it doesn't work that way.
Her dad warns her not to become attached to the two steers. But looking in their big dark eyes
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rimmed with soft long lashes, twelve-year-old Libby just couldn't help falling in love. She even names them, Piggy and Mule. Then Piggy injures a leg and that means, on the farm, he becomes meat. Libby is devastated and turns vegetarian.
She knows if she shows Mule at the fair, he'll have to be sold in the auction afterward—and he'll be slaughtered, too. Still, she is sure she will win Grand Champion, or at least Reserve ribbon with Mule.
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