by Doug Kane and Christy Wood
ages: 9-13
First sentence: “My jeans are trashed!”
Review copy sent to me by the publisher (or a publicist? I can’t check since I lost all my emails…)

This is a horse book.

This is a horse book that M kind of liked.

This is a horse book that really knows its audience.

This is a horse book that I couldn’t make it past the first three chapters after which M said it got interesting.

This is a horse book that I felt the authors got stuck in the old show-not-tell mire.

This is a horse book that I could care less about.

This is a horse book, though, that if you have a pre-teen girl who LOVES horses, it would be a good fit for her.

I won’t begrudge you for liking horse books. It’s just the rare horse book that I can tolerate.

This is not that horse book.