Night Mare

by Vicki Kamida

Thirteen-year-old Janet Marshall spends all of her spare time daydreaming about horses. One night, she dreams to life a magical white mare, whom she names Storm. Astride her dream horse, she journeys deep into a wild canyon where she discovers the remote ranch that is the mare's home. But the dream becomes a nightmare when she discovers the her horse is a darkly magical beast that can never be tamed. And the horse's owners are ghosts, doomed to relive the tragedy that has kept them trapped in time for more than a hundred years.  

Genres: Horses

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Elise]

Had a sad ending :(

[Serena]

When I was in 6th grade, I checked this book out from my school library. This is the book that made me realize my love for reading!!

[Dena Wolfe]

This is the book that got me into reading and made me fall in love with it! I read it in 5th grade, I am a 19 year old graduate now, so it’s been awhile. I don’t remember everything in this book, I just remember loving it so much! I hope to have my own copy of the book someday and I’ll be able to reread it!

[Makayla Peterson]

This book is about a girl named Janet and her quest to find a missing mare. It all started in her dream, riding the mare. She calls her Storm. After school, she asks her friend, to find Storm. after her friend almost fell of the water fall, she is grounded for a week. She continues doing her lessons for the Open Seasoner (a competition). she is stuck with an old mare called Sugar. Her dream is, to have a horse of her own. Later in the story, her dream becomes a total Night Mare! a storm comes and floods her whole town. She decides to help the mare get down a cavern. All of the sudden Sugar is being taken by the flow of the river! to figure out the ending, you have to read the book.

[Evie]

It was a really good story, something I'd definitely recommend for a young person interested in horses. The only thing that keeps me from rating it higher was that the blurb described Storm as a "darkly magical beast who can never be tamed." Well, Storm's a ghost, and there are very few magical moments throughout the story. Definitely not what I was expecting; misleading blurb aside, though, it is a good story.

[VivianA]

My favourite part of the book was when Janet Marshall dreams about a white mare that she named Storm. My favourite character is Janet because she really likes horses like I do and she has a really fun and a scary adventure in the canyons. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes horses and adventures.