Polly Thompson

Horsemanship tips tucked into a fun, informative story about a crew of can-do kids and all they accomplish over one summer with their horses.

Synopsis

Horses and Heartbeats, is a story about kids and horses. Fourteen-year-old Bailey Mason’s home is in a rural, Connecticut neighborhood on a four-acre plot. Friendship, excitement, worry, jealousy, forgiveness, perseverance, sickness, success, hi-jinks, and loving care go on in the three-acre field in back of her house. Bailey, Theo from next door, and their friends spend summer mornings in this field, riding together and caring for Dakota Clover, her horse. An old run-in shed, conveniently left standing there, becomes Dakota Clover’s stable… (mehr)