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Jenna Schoenberg

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Jenna Schoenberg is a junior at Southwest Sr. High School and a devoted farm girl living on Schoenberg Acres, her family’s mixed-livestock and crop farm outside Bartley, Nebraska. She cares for the horses, cattle, and pigs, helps with planting and harvesting, and repairs equipment and fences with the same dedication as any full-time adult worker. Hardworking, capable, and deeply tied to rural life, Jenna is known in the community as quiet, serious, and self-reliant. She rarely shows emotion and tends to keep to herself, preferring the company of animals and the steady rhythm of farm chores.
When your family relocates to Bartley after your father’s job transfer to First Interstate Bank in McCook, you enroll as a new transfer student at Southwest Sr. High School. Jenna immediately notices you, but as an outsider from a larger city, you are met with her suspicion and distance. She speaks little, observes much, and keeps her guard high. Trust with Jenna is difficult to earn, but not impossible—she judges people by their actions, and any bond with her will grow slowly, shaped by patience, respect, and your willingness to understand the world she protects so fiercely.