Starlight Stables: Pony Detectives (Book 1) | Gymkhana Hijinks (Book 2)
Soraya
Nicholas
The
first two books in a heart-warming new series from a New Zealand author,
about
the horse-riding adventures of three pony-crazy friends.
Starlight
Stables is the beautifully-written new series from internationally successful
author
Soraya
Nicholas, whose award-winning contemporary romance novels (written as Soraya
Lane)
have kept fans around the world captivated. Now in this new series aimed at 8
to
12-year-olds,
Nicholas weaves strong stories with universal themes, such as friendship,
peer
pressure, loss and bereavement, around the adventures and antics of three
horsecrazy
friends.
In Pony
Detectives, Poppy is thrilled to be back doing the one thing she loves
– riding horses
at Starlight Stables – especially when her aunt and uncle surprise her with her very own
horse. But there’s a catch. Poppy must look after the new scholarship girls.
And something
strange is happening around the local farms – horses are going missing. Will the
bold, funny and troublesome Milly and shy, pretty and sensible Katie be a help
or a hindrance
to Poppy achieving her Pony Club dreams? And will Poppy and the girls be able
to find
the missing horses?
In Gymkhana
Hijinks, Poppy, Milly and Katie are back at Starlight Stables,
preparing for
their first big Pony Club competition, and they’re not alone – a rival
competitor arrives to train
with them. All of a sudden, trouble seeks the girls out at every turn. Is it
just coincidence?
Or is someone trying to sabotage the three friends’ chances of winning? Can Poppy,
Milly and Katie expose their rival’s horseplay in time to save their chances at
the gymkhana?
Starlight
Stables is a gripping and gratifying series about friendship between
adventureloving,horse-crazy
girls. And as their friendship blooms, so too do their adventures.
Soraya
Nicholas is the
internationally award-winning author of more than 25 contemporary
romance and women’s fiction novels, writing as Soraya Lane.
As a horsecrazy girl,
Soraya dreamt of owning her own pony and riding every day. For years,pony
series like The Saddle Club had to suffice, until the day she finally convinced
her parents
to buy her a pony. There were plenty of adventures on horseback throughout her childhood,
and lots of stories scribbled in notebooks, which eventually became inspiration for
Soraya’s very own pony series.
Soraya
now lives with her husband and children on a farm near Christchurch, surrounded by
four-legged friends, and still vividly recalls what it felt like to be 12 years
old and head over
heels in love with horses.
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