There are over seven million horses in America -- even more than when they were the only means of transportation. Nir began riding horses when she was just two years old and hasn't stopped since. This is her funny, moving love letter to these graceful animals and the people who are obsessed with them. She takes us into the lesser-known corners of the riding world and profiles some of its most captivating figures, and speaks candidly of how horses have helped her overcome heartbreak and loss.

Best friends May Grover and Jasmine James each have their own pony. So does their neighbour, Joey Dutton. And when May, Jasmine and Joey aren't riding their ponies in their backyards, they're riding them at Pony Club meetings at Pine Hollow Stables. Then Joey's family moves away, and a new neighbour moves in. At night, lights flicker on and off inside the house, and strange noises come from the stable. What's going on at Joey's old house? Can two pony-crazy girls find out? See the back of the book for May's pony grooming tips!

From the author of the bestselling Saddle Club books comes a series about three pony-crazy girls May, Jasmine, and Joey are best friends and neighbors—and they’re totally horse-crazy. When they aren’t taking care of their ponies at home, they’re riding them at Pony Club meetings at Pine Hollow Stables. But the trio is torn apart when Joey’s family moves away and a new neighbor moves in. Odd things start happening at Joey’s old house—lights flicker from inside, and strange noises come from the barn. Who is this new neighbor, and what’s going on inside their friend’s old house? It’s up to these two best friends to find out!

Horse Crazy explores the meaning behind the love between girls and horses. Jean O'Malley Halley, a self-professed "horse girl," contends that this relationship and its cultural signifiers influence the manner in which young girls define their identity when it comes to gender. Halley examines how popular culture, including the "pony book" genre, uses horses to encourage conformity to gender norms but also insists that the loving relationship between a girl and a horse fundamentally challenges sexist and mainstream ideas of girlhood. Horse Crazy looks at the relationships between girls and horses through the frameworks of Michel Foucault's concepts of normalization and biopower, drawing conclusions about the way girls' agency is both normalized and resistant to normalization. Segments of Halley's own experiences with horses as a young girl, as well as experiences from the perspective of other girls, are sources for examination. "Horsey girls," as she calls them, are girls who find a way to defy the expectations given to them by society-thinness, obsession with makeup and beauty, frailty-and gain the possibility of freedom in the process. Drawing on Nicole Shukin's uses of animal capital theories, Halley also explores the varied treatment of horses themselves as an example of the biopolitical use of nonhuman animals and the manipulation and exploitation of horse life. In so doing she engages with common ways we think and feel about animals and with the technologies of speciesism.

If you think kids are nuts about horses, you won't believe how crazy they are about ponies! From Shetlands to Connemaras, Crazy for Ponies features some of the world's cutest, most graceful and well-known pony breeds. Whether they're in the show ring or out on the trail, the ponies featured in these sixteen full-colour mini-posters - and the page of facts on each breed - will make young readers want to saddle up! Includes a beautiful pull-out poster.

During a fire at the Crandal Animal Clinic, the Pony Pals help remove all the animals unharmed--but Anna's kitten is missing. A pony named Acorn comes to the rescue in a thrilling search.

Meg and Annie sleep over at Jill's pony farm and have their first riding lesson.