Being able to talk to ponies isn't all that it's cracked up to be! Sure Pia can understand her pony, Drummer, and any other pony around her for that matter. But it doesn't make life any easier when the ponies go on strike right before a national pony competition. When her rival Cat's routine looks perfect, Pia knows that she must find a way to get her team back on the ponies' good sides. Otherwise, Cat's team will take home the prize for sure. Talking to ponies is incredible...if only they didn't have so much to say! "This combination of magic and a quick-moving, contemporary plot is a light and enjoyable read. The horses are particularly amusing as they reveal their complaints and requests to their owners through Pia."—School Library Journal review for Pony Whisperer: The Word on the Yard

It's the start of the summer holidays and everyone in the stable yard is excited about entering a new nationwide inter-team competition. When Pia and Cat end up on competing teams, it's bound to end in trouble!

A smash hit from the UK, "The Pony Whisperer" is a fun and fresh new horse series featuring a girl that can talk to horses--and an irreverent, sarcastic pony that talks right back.

Pia immediately gets off on the wrong foot with Cat, 'queen' of the stables, but starts to make friends when her newly-discovered talent helps save a pony from colic. Word spreads about Pia's pony-whispering powers - then it all goes wrong when she gets her own TV show!

When the local Riding for the Disabled Association plans a fundraising event, everyone at Laurel Farm stables is keen to get involved - everyone, that is, except the ponies, who decide to go on strike. Can Pia use her pony-whispering to persuade the ponies to drop their disastrous plan?

Everyone at the stables is on alert when travellers return to the area. But Pia cannot help but be drawn to one traveller girl, Jazz, who has real pony-whispering powers. When she and her pony become runaways, should Pia help Jazz -- and risk her new friendships at the stables?

When Bean wins a riding holiday for two, she asks Pia to go with her. Pia is delighted, even though it means leaving Drummer behind. But when they get to the riding centre, Pia is shocked to hear what the ponies have to say and wonders just what is in store for the next week ...