Against the backdrop of the high-stakes and intensely competitive equestrian sport of show jumping, Finny, a fifteen-year-old girl in California, adopts an emaciated, untrained horse without her parents' knowledge. Soon after adopting Sky, Finny meets Joe, a sixteen-year-old, who has run away from his cruel uncle in Montana. His love for horses and desire to be a trainer matches Finny's dream of competing in the show jumping arena—against rich girls on fancier horses—and together, they train Sky to become a first-rate show jumper.But the path is fraught with danger. Sky is not like other horses and is so destructive and difficult he gets them kicked out of the barn where Finny has been working and training. Helped by a kind woman who owns a horse rescue, Joe is able to prove both his and Sky's incredible talents. When Joe is kidnapped by his violent uncle, Finny and Sky are the only ones who can save him. In a breathtaking finale, Sky and Finny must enter the underworld of the rodeo circuit, an after-hours, illegal race, where they will risk their lives to save the boy they love. Young demonstrates a masterful ability to set a breakneck pace and keep it up until the end of the novel. Finny and Joe are enduring characters who are sure to appear in upcoming sequels.

The third gripping adventure in this exciting new pony-club series. With gymkhanas to win, rivals to defeat, mysteries to solve and ponies in danger to save -- these books are perfect for all girls who love ponies.

Product Description: Gee Whiz is a striking horse, and only part of that is because of his size. He is tall, but also graceful, yet his strides big but precise. At the same time, he keeps his eye on things, not as if he's suspicious, but as if he's curious...read more

Product Description: Starting the Colt, the sequel to The Orange Slipknot, continues 12-year-old Ben Lucas s quest to prove he s tough enough to please his hot-tempered dad. The Nevada ranch where his dad cowboys is a man s world. His dad wants him to buck out some colts, but Fred, the old crusty cowboss, teaches him another way to start colts, and it looks like magic! Ben fights fire, wrecks on his ATV, and gets kicked out of school for fighting...read more

Product Description: Some people think Norton is a naughty pony, but his owner Molly knows he is just very clever. She is determined to train her pony, no matter how long it takes.

Product Description: An unforgettable story of men and horses, the American West, and the dream of a ticket out * A May 2012 Indie Next Pick *Will Testerman is a young Wyoming horse trainer determined to make something of himself. Money is tight at the family ranch, where he's living again after a disastrous end to his job on the Texas show-horse circuit...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The Pony Scouts are becoming better at riding with every lesson. But just when they think they've seen it all, a new horse arrives on Jill's farm-one who hasn't been ridden before! Taffy is a beautiful palomino pony that needs Jill's help...read more

Product Description: The second book in the exciting Brookmeade Young Riders Series continues the adventures of Sarah Wagner and Crown Prince. Sarah dreams that she and her horse will someday reach the highest levels of equestrian competition. With help from her trainer, Jack O’Brien, Sarah teaches Crown Prince the skills he needs for them to join the advanced Young Riders class at Brookmeade Farm...read more

Product Description: Summer special 2-in-1 edition of the fifth and sixth books in the ‘Pony Club Secrets’ series. ‘Comet and the Champion’s Cup’:When Aunty Hess opens a riding school for the summer, Issie and her pony-club friends go along to help out...read more

A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares “Jewel” and all the geldings “George” and warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her friends) and home (her brother Danny is gone—for good, it seems—and now Daddy won’t speak his name), Abby seeks refuge with the Georges and the Jewels. But there’s one gelding on her family’s farm that gives her no end of trouble: the horse who won’t meet her gaze, the horse who bucks her right off every chance he gets, the horse her father makes her ride and train, every day. She calls him the Ornery George.From the Hardcover edition.

A new novel by the author of Erasure explores issues of masculinity and homosexuality against a Western American backdrop, charting the effects of a fatal gay bashing incident on the lives of a father and son living in Wyoming. Reprint.

When Happy Go Lucky gets to be in his first show with Dapper Dan, a very professional show pony, Happy is a little nervous since new places can be scary, and Happy does not know what to expect.

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