Challenger was the only title issued in the UK: it can be picked up cheaply if you’re lucky, but can also be extremely expensive. Horse Trap is another which is expensive. Finding any of the titles as non-
Heads Up
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Scholastic pb reprint 1961, and 1965,
illus Leonard Shortall
“Peggy rides Mr McGrugeon’s jumpers during the fair season, and at one fair she becomes
friends
with the trick riding Tucker family and wishes that she lived with such a friendly
family
instead of her own foster family.”
The Doggone Roan
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“Babe helps her dad take care of their racing Quarter Horse Strawberry, but when
her dad breaks his arm and
then Strawberry is injured, Babe is afraid they’ll have
to get out of racing.”
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Sandy thinks she might have to sell her filly Dove, as the ranch is in trouble financially.
She works her hardest
while her parents are away, trying to make the ranch self-
Galloping Gold
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Sue had to sell her colt Pal two years ago, and has been saving ever since so she
can buy him back. She
goes to the big palomino horse show, hoping she can buy him,
but finds out that he has become a very
valuable animal.
Challenger
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UK: Dent, London, 1960
(right)
Ellie thinks she knows her horse, Challenger, really well, but training her friend
Pam to ride him
well is a real challenge.
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Horse in her Heart
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Carol has managed to spoil her horse Skipper, but won’t let Jim help her to retrain
him. Then she goes
to France, and learns that horses and people both need discipline.
Diving Horse
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Annie has managed to train her horse Spotty do do a diving act, but before their
first ever performance,
she gets stage fright and finds her nerves have been communicated
to her horse.
Loco, the Bronc
Edward McCann, New York, 1961, Illus Sam Savitt
The bucking horse Loco was left behind by the rodeo as he was sick. Lynn helps the
caretaker care for
him, and when she forms a relationship with the sick horse, tries
to talk the owner of the rodeo into selling
her the horse.
The Horse Trap
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Deborah Lee Bell has two problems: one, that she doesn’t own a horse, and two, that
she doesn’t tend to
think before she acts.
The Mysterious Buckskin
Patsey Gray writing as Virginia Clark
Macmillan 1960
Cover art by Charles W. Walker
Ann and Ken are leading a group of three on a long trail ride. Ann thinks the buckskin
horse one of them is
riding looks like her horse Frosty, who was stolen.
Star Bright
Norton, New York, 1964, right
Young Readers’ Press, NY, 1968 pb, far right
Debbie has a horse: Star Bright, but he will have to earn his living be being useful
on the
farm, or he will have to go.
Star Lost
Norton, New York, 1965, right
Young Readers’ Press, NY, 1966, pb, far right
Debbie and Maureen go on a camping trip with their horses, but because Debbie
won’t
listen to what she’s told, both horses escape and are lost.
Horsepower
Norton, 1966, illus Sam Savitt, right
Young Readers’ Press, New York, 1969, far right
Jumping Jack
Norton, 1965, illus Sam Savitt, right
Young Reader Press, 1965, far right
Miss Van leaves the club stables for two months, and Jill finds her replacement,
Captain
Clark, difficult to get on with. He’s conceited, and seems to want to spoil
her success
in showing Jack.
Show Ring Rogue
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Sheila has a brace on her leg after an illness, and doesn’t want anyone to see her
riding with it. She meets
the horse Rogue, who refuses to go into the show ring,
and together they solve each other’s problems.
The Star Series
The Horse Trap
Star Bright
Star Lost
Lucky Star
Star the Seahorse