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Pony Club Secrets Series:
A very popular series with young readers. A traditional type series but with a slight mystical element running through. The series gets more and more competition/winning orientated as it goes along.
1) MYSTIC AND THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
(HARPER COLLINS 2007)
SUMMARY: After a tragedy, Issie is determined to give up ponies. But then she meets Blaze, an ill-treated mare who needs her help.
PONYMAD RATING: 2 HORSESHOES
2) BLAZE AND THE DARK RIDER
(HARPER COLLINS 2007 )
SUMMARY: Issie and her friends are competing in a inter-club competition but someone is out to sabotage them.
3) DESTINY AND THE WILD HORSES
(HARPER COLLINS 2008)
SUMMARY: Issie is disappointed when she has to miss the summer with her friends and the pony club dressage competition in order to stay out on her aunt's farm and help her injured aunt look after the stock. But when she finds out her aunt has horses galore and a business training animals for film and TV, she soon perks up. But as well as fun there is danger with a mysterious wild animal roaming the place and a herd of wild ponies in danger.
PONYMAD RATING: 3 HORSESHOES
4) STARDUST AND THE DAREDEVIL PONIES
(HARPER COLLINS 2008)
SUMMARY: Issie and her friends are helping her Aunt, handling the ponies on a film set.
5) COMET AND THE CHAMPION'S CUP
(HARPER COLLINS 2008)
SUMMARY: When Issie and her friends go along to help at Aunt Hess' new riding stables, Issie meets Comet, a talented jumper, but with a naughty streak. Can Issie train him in time to compete in the Horse of the Year Show?
6) STORM AND THE SILVER BRIDLE
(HARPER COLLINS 2009)
SUMMARY: When the young colt Nightstorm is stolen, the search for him takes Issie all the way to Spain!
7) FORTUNE AND THE GOLDEN TROPHY
(HARPER COLLINS 2009)
SUMMARY: Issie must try and train the dozy pony Fortune and work out who is causing ructions between the riders and a nearby golf course.
8) VICTORY AND THE ALL-STARS ACADEMY
(HARPER COLLINS 2009)
SUMMARY: Issie has won a place on the National Junior Team and is competing in Australia with superb pony Victory. But all is not well when she gets there, with a nightmare room-mate and a secret to keep.
9) FLAME AND THE REBEL RIDERS
(HARPER COLLINS 2010)
SUMMARY: Issie takes a summer job at a prestigious show jumping yard and meets the talented pony Flame. But can she keep her feet on the ground in this glamourous new world?
10) ANGEL AND THE FLYING STALLIONS
(HARPER COLLINS 2010)
SUMMARY: Issie travels back to Spain to re-claim her colt Storm and also to learn to ride Haute Ecole on the fabulous Angel! But there is both mystery and love in the air for our heroine to contend with….
11) LIBERTY AND THE DREAM RIDE
(HARPER COLLINS 2011)
SUMMARY: Issie travels to the USA to ride in the prestigious Lexington horse trials, but she then has an offer to ride a top event horse there: does she have what it takes?
12) NIGHTSTORM AND THE GRAND SLAM
(HARPER COLLINS 2011)
SUMMARY: Issie aims high with her hopes to compete on Nightstorm at Badminton and Burghley after Lexington. Can she become the youngest ever riding to win the Grand Slam?
Last in series.
Other editions:
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: ISSIE AND THE CHRISTMAS PONY
(HARPER COLLINS 2008)
SUMMARY: Special prequel to the rest of the series. Tells how Issie met her first beloved pony Mystic and of the magic that kept them together.
Collectors Info:
All paperback originals. All still in print and easy to find in the UK and USA. Second-hand copies are also quite easy to find and cheap.
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