Paint the Wind Book

I may be a fanatic but i have read this book about eight times. I read it whenever i have nothing else to read and i enjoy it every time!
It starts with Maya, living under her grandmother's controlling care, and always dreaming about seeing the horses her parents loved so much. To her they were all a mystery. One day though her grandmother has a random stroke and dies, leaving Maya with no where to go but her mother's family, who she was supposed to visit every summer. She has a hard time adapting at first, but quickly enough she is happy at the camp her mother and father spent so much time at before. Then when she is alone for a while she spots Artemisia, the horse her mother once rode. She decides to go and get her, thinking it would be quick, but just as she reaches Artemisia a horrible earthquake happens. Maya is injured and overtime gains Artemisia's trust enough so that together they make it safely back to camp.
It is a very great story about leaving what you know for something completely different, and maybe even better. By sitting and waiting at her controlling grandmothers house for too long, she is finally Maya: A journey about to begin!