Maybelline — A.R. Rand

Maybelline is no ordinary ostrich. Maybelline has a dream - Maybelline wants to be a star! Her goofy keepers, Waldo and Rocky, run a Texas ostrich farm. Maybelline is the fastest ostrich on Earth and they want her to run in the ostrich races. She runs all right...to Hollywood with the throbbing beat of “Maybelline,” the rock n' rock classic playing in her head. Waldo and Rocky pursue Maybelline determined to get her back. On the way Maybelline meets Arby, a seven-year-old Hispanic boy, in foster care with Mary and Ralph Carter on their farm in northern California Arby wants to go to Los Angeles to find his mother. The Carters panic when they discover that Arby has runaway with Maybelline. To break into show biz, Maybelline needs an agent and finds the cigar chomping Hal Hopeful. An ostrich - a star? Why not �" Maybelline has looks, legs and feathers! Will Arby find his mother? Will Maybelline realize her dream? Find out in this adventure tale of friendship and courage despite the odds.