Horse For Teens

Horse-mad Deja Jackson has just moved to a new town after her parents' divorce. She starts taking riding lessons in her new town at Tricolor Farms where she meets two new best friends. She also falls in love with her lesson horse, Macintosh. He's the best horse she has ever ridden but he's also for sale. With the help of her two new best friends, Deja dreams up a plan to be able to buy Mac. Can three girls in middle school figure out how to buy a horse for Deja and make her dream a reality?

During the depths of the Great Depression, Seabiscuit won against incredible odds and uplifted the hearts of Americans from the streets to the White House. Ralph Moody recounts the thrilling tale of the plucky horse who refused to quit, the down-on-his-luck jockey who didn't let horrendous accidents keep him out of the saddle, and the taciturn trainer who brought out the best in both.

Small town 17-year-old Vivienne Taylor is a talented equestrian with Olympic dreams and a little something extra going on - she is also an "equine empath", someone who has the ability to read horses’ minds and moods. When she receives a full scholarship to attend Fairmont Riding Academy, a prep school with a famous riding program, she struggles with homesickness, hazing by the school’s snooty drama queen, intense competition in the sport of three-day-eventing, and the not-altogether-unwelcome interest of a hot guy. On top of all of that the horse given to Vivienne via the scholarship is an animal that she cannot "read" or understand.

Cara had the perfect life. Perfect family, perfect friends and perfect school. How could it all fall apart so quickly? Sixteen year old Cara, is about to embark on the biggest year of her schooling; year twelve, before applying to study medicine. Everything is on track for an exciting future. Raised in the suburbs in a comfortable house with loving parents who adore her, Cara has a close circle of good friends, and her popularity status at the school is on the rise, with the letter 'A' stamped all over her report card. Everything is perfect. At least……..it was. Slowly, the walls of her ...

“No one has ever questioned Josie’s supernatural vision of things; she has a direct line to life-saving information from above.” March 1834 Three years after settling into Eagleton, life is perfect for nineteen-year-old Isabella Andrus-Johnson (Izzy). A cabin on the hill, beautiful twin daughters, a husband who would give his life to protect her. When Josie hears unsettling information, she sends Izzy on a mission to find a runaway boy from the Shelby County Orphanage. Izzy uncovers a plot inside a cult in Arkansas. They've kidnapped and sold several children to a Comanche tribe in ...

A feel-good equestrian series for horse-mad kids, teens, and those 'young at heart'. Sweetbriars has been called a 'Must Read' by Horse & Hound and 'The Stuff of Horse Lover's Dreams' by Reader's Favorite. Included several times in The Pony Magazine's best horse book recommendations and winner of the Best Young Adult Fiction award by the EQUUS Film Festival. Welcome to the yard! Come and meet Cate, Tabby and Violet. Cate is uprooted from life as she has known it. Along with her family and pony Odette, she moves to a charming farm deep in the English countryside. Cate is torn. Upon moving to...

Kellyn had always loved Elias Stratton with all her heart and probably always would. She'd trusted him...but never again. Elizabeth had always believed there was nothing more magical than the precious gift of love...even now in the heart of danger, she still believed it...she always would. After telling the story of Simon's magical cowboy ranch for more years than she cared to count, Elizabeth Fountaine wondered if there might be more to the fanciful fairy-tale than being an elaborate bedtime story to tell children. More than ever before, she very much needed for even just a small piece of ...

Vivienne embarks upon the summer of her dreams as one of the few students selected for a training program back east at Liberty Farms. But as focused as she is on her riding, Vivvie also has a secret agenda: to investigate the death of Joel Parker, her friend who she believes was tragically murdered. Vivvie has hardly set foot in the state-of-the-art barns before things start to go amiss.

Twelve-year-old Samantha Zillmer has ridden horses her entire life. When her mother offers to give her and her best friend dressage lessons, Samantha doesn't know what to expect. She soon discovers that the challenges of dressage are very different from her usual bareback races across the fields and cow pastures of Wisconsin.

Ever since school has been back in session, Shanice has been missing her friends. They aren’t seeing much of each other because they are taking different classes now and she has been taking lessons with the jumpers instead of with Allison and Deja. On top of feeling a bit lonely, Shanice is having trouble with school and even worse, trouble with riding Wilfred. When a health scare brings things into focus, the strength of Shanice’s convictions are tested. Will Shanice grow apart from Deja and Allison? Is Shanice going down a different path than her friends?

Charnaye Toulou has her sights pinned on winning the World Famous Suicide Horse Race during the Omak Stampede. Her desire is to win the purse in order to help her paraplegic father improve living conditions while proving Native women can be warriors. One bully and several anonymous threatening letters try and stop her. So when she hooks up with relatives and a horse that can take her the distance in this rite-of-passage horse race, she begins the rigorous training it takes to become “King of the Hill”, or in her case “Queen”.

As 17-year-old Vivienne Taylor returns to Fairmont Riding Academy for the second semester, she just wants to get past the drama that dominated her first months at the school. Reunited with her beloved horse, Harmony, Vivvie vows to focus on riding, particularly with the announcement that a select group of students will be chosen to compete at a Three Day Event in Kentucky, with access to world-class coaches afterwards. Making the team is exactly what Vivvie needs to get to the next level.

While housesitting at the Funderburg home, Amy Jo and Becky discover a hidden door leading to a series of underground tunnels. Strange markings on the tunnel wall, visible only with a black light, lead them farther and farther into the passageways where Amy Jo and Becky uncover a fiendish plot. Before they can warn the police, the girls are caught in a trap where there seems no possible way of escape. Astride, Ginger and Oreo, Amy Jo and Becky find the courage and ingenuity to bring the criminals to justice.

Nine-year old Judy Jenkins had been longing to learn to ride since she was six. Her parents had said it was too expensive. But now that she’s been sent to live with her grandmother, in a village with riding stables, Judy is determined to find a way to achieve her secret goal.And by bravely following her dream, Judy discovers a gift she didn’t know she had. She finds friends, copes with enemies, overcomes obstacles and enjoys great achievements.She also discovers, quietly, along the way, something more important than any of these things.

At age nine Jenna Michaelson had her whole life already mapped out - future world and Olympic three-day-eventer. At age fourteen, she's a know-it-all teen living alone with her mum in London - not a horse in sight. Can a few weeks staying with her grandparents back at the stables change all that, or has she really put horses out of her life for good? Meet the whole Michaelson clan, and their four-legged friends, at the Quicksilver Stud in Book 1 – Born in the Saddle. Teen fiction for horse lovers, especially eventing fans. Ideal for fans of Claire Svendson, Amanda Wills or Samantha ...

In 1876, Lakota Chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people’s resistance against the White man’s invasion of the Northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. At the height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last time. In this action-packed double biography, S. D. Nelson draws fascinating parallels between Crazy Horse and Custer, two men whose lives were intertwined.

Don't Look Back is a sweet, clean Victorian story. Hannah Dawes loves to paint. She dreams of being a great artist. Her sand sculptures and paintings win her acclaim in her local community of New Beach, New Jersey, but when circumstances take her away from the Jersey shore, she must learn to love the sprawling vistas of High Bend, Colorado. Strangers in a strange land, Hannah and her family travel across the country to live with Hannah's Uncle James, a bachelor rancher whom Hannah has never met. Life on the ranch is hard, and Hannah misses her old home, that is until she starts to pain the ...

A Prequel to "The Impelled Series": Sixteen year old Emma Walker’s world revolves around one thing: horses. When Emma isn’t navigating her junior year of high school with her two best friends at her side, she is riding or working her horses board off at the barn. There is one thing that taints a perfect day at the barn though – the barn owners son, Luke, and his posse of infuriating friends. To make matters worse, Luke attends her high school and is friends with Emma’s former friend, and now sworn rival, Jaclyn Alcott. As if juggling horses and high school isn’t hard enough, ...

After Mrs. Martin suffers a stroke, Amy Jo and Becky, two horse-loving girls, stumble upon a mystery when a significant amount of money goes missing from their elderly friend's home. Determined to find the money and discover the thief, Amy Jo and Becky put their detective skills to the test. Riding Ginger and Oreo, they gallop through the picturesque countryside, uncovering hidden secrets, and following a trail of clues that leads them deeper into a web of intrigue. As they race against time, the girls discover that the truth is more complicated than they imagined, and danger lurks around ...

An unfortunate accident throws Phoebe into the summer she and you will never forget. Sent to a dude ranch while her mother recovers, Phoebe discovers something strange about herself. Find out how this remarkable girl and her horse save each other from the unthinkable when a chance encounter with some unsavory characters cements a special bond between the girl and her horse. Struggle with her as Phoebe faces the hardest decision of her life. Phoebe finds that studying the character of horses helps her to develop her artistic talent. Discover how Phoebe uses that talent to help save a herd of...