Rereading: HUNTER’S MOON by M. E. Atkinson

Cover and illustrations by Charlotte Hough

This is the second book about Fricka and her three cousins, Hugo, Sugar, and Adrian, but most of the story focuses on a new character, Tony Martin. Tony had an alarming experience with a runaway pony when very young, but he doesn’t really remember it. Now that he’s older, staying in a house with Fricka and her cousins, who are into horses and riding, he finds he wants to ride too, but how can he learn? He and another boarder, Peter, take out Fricka’s horse for a ride, but get into trouble when the pony falls and injures his leg. Tony earns a little riding time with a borrowed horse at a show, but it runs away with him, allowing old fears to surface. He struggles to overcome them, and hatches a plot to secretly buy a young pony of his own at a horse auction, but plenty of things go wrong with that idea.

A good read if you can find it, recommended.

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