September 2014, Bantam Press, 304 pages, Paperback, Review copy
Content: peril, grief, humour, tissues needed
Summary from Random House Children's Publishers
HORSE CRAZY: Twelve-year-olds Carole Hanson and Stevie Lake have been
best friends ever since they met at Pine Hollow stables. So when
thirteen-year-old Lisa Atwood shows up for her first lesson dressed in
fancy riding gear - and acting chummy with the snobbiest girl in town -
the girls aren't sure she'll fit in. But Lisa soon shows herself to be a
quick learner, and Carole and Stevie can't help but admire her natural
riding talents. Soon the three girls are fast friends. They begin to
make plans for the MTO, the long-awaited Mountain Trail Overnight
campout for the students of Pine Hollow. There's just one problem:
Stevie's parents won't pay for it unless she improves her grades . . .
HORSE SHY: The three members of the Saddle Club are together on the long-awaited Mountain Trail Overnight. They are having such a perfect time that nothing - not even Veronica, the richest and snobbiest girl at the stables - can spoil their fun. But the impossible does happen. A tragic accident, caused by Veronica's carelessness, makes Carole lose the one thing she loved most in the world. Is her grief enough to make her give up riding forever?
HORSE SHY: The three members of the Saddle Club are together on the long-awaited Mountain Trail Overnight. They are having such a perfect time that nothing - not even Veronica, the richest and snobbiest girl at the stables - can spoil their fun. But the impossible does happen. A tragic accident, caused by Veronica's carelessness, makes Carole lose the one thing she loved most in the world. Is her grief enough to make her give up riding forever?
Nayu's thoughts
I
absolutely adore this new to me horse series! It is full to the brim
with friendship and family drama, having each girl at some point keep
secrets because they are afraid what their friends will think, only
to find out in the end that their friends don't care and are there to
help them. I think I read the books out of order, so it was nice to
read book 1, Horse
Crazy,
and learn how the Saddle Club was formed which had puzzled me a
little with the content of one of the other books.
There is a lot of
humour which is needed when there is a smidge of tragedy in Horse
Shy.
I cried at the tragedy and when there was a resolution because it was
so touching and by this point I knew the characters so well. I really
liked how the owner of the stables had a soft side, it made a hard
situation a bit easier to cope with. I hope this series continues to
expand because I want to keep on being with these horse loving girls!
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