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Pine Hollow #9
Riding to Win
Carole Hanson is sure she can win at this year's Colesford Horse Show, while Stevie Lake would be satisfied with just a simple ribbon, in a recent edition to the Pine Hollow series for young adults. Original.
272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1999
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Bonnie Bryant
384 books198 followersAmerican author of children's books. She is best known for creating the intermediate horse book series The Saddle Club, which was published from October 1988 until April 2001. The Saddle Club chronicled the adventures of thirteen-year-old Lisa Atwood and twelve-year-olds Stephanie "Stevie" Lake and Carole Hanson. The series was static in time; the girls never aged in 101 books, 7 special editions, and 3 Inside Stories.
Bonnie Bryant also wrote two spin-off series: Pony Tails, aimed at beginning readers, and Pine Hollow, aimed at teenage readers. The 16 Pony Tails books followed the lives of eight-year-olds May Grover, Corey Takamura, and Jasmine James. Pine Hollow featured Carole, Lisa, Stevie, and their new friends in a series set four years after The Saddle Club. Unlike The Saddle Club, Pine Hollow conformed to a realistic timeline. The 17 books took place over the span of less than a year. Later a television show called The Saddle Club, based on the books, was filmed in Australia.
Bonnie Bryant wrote at least 38 The Saddle Club books and 2 Pine Hollow books herself; after that they were taken over by a team of ghostwriters, a common practice in long-running children's book series. Ghostwriters for the Saddle Club and Pine Hollow books included Caitlin Macy (sometimes credited as Caitlin C. Macy), Catherine Hapka, Sallie Bissell, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Helen Geraghty, Tina deVaron, Cat Johnston, Minna Jung, and Sheila Prescott-Vessey.
Bonnie Bryant is also the author of many novelizations of movies, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Karate Kid, and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, written under her married name, B.B. Hiller. She also collaborated in the ghostwriting of The Baby-sitters Club Super Special #14: BSC in the USA, published under the name of its creator, Ann M. Martin.
Bonnie Bryant was born and raised in New York City. She met her husband, Neil W. Hiller, in college, where they both worked on the campus newspaper. They had two sons, Emmons Hiller and Andrew Hiller. Neil Hiller died in 1989. Many of Bonnie's books are dedicated to him.
***from wikipedia.org
Bonnie Bryant also wrote two spin-off series: Pony Tails, aimed at beginning readers, and Pine Hollow, aimed at teenage readers. The 16 Pony Tails books followed the lives of eight-year-olds May Grover, Corey Takamura, and Jasmine James. Pine Hollow featured Carole, Lisa, Stevie, and their new friends in a series set four years after The Saddle Club. Unlike The Saddle Club, Pine Hollow conformed to a realistic timeline. The 17 books took place over the span of less than a year. Later a television show called The Saddle Club, based on the books, was filmed in Australia.
Bonnie Bryant wrote at least 38 The Saddle Club books and 2 Pine Hollow books herself; after that they were taken over by a team of ghostwriters, a common practice in long-running children's book series. Ghostwriters for the Saddle Club and Pine Hollow books included Caitlin Macy (sometimes credited as Caitlin C. Macy), Catherine Hapka, Sallie Bissell, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Helen Geraghty, Tina deVaron, Cat Johnston, Minna Jung, and Sheila Prescott-Vessey.
Bonnie Bryant is also the author of many novelizations of movies, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Karate Kid, and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, written under her married name, B.B. Hiller. She also collaborated in the ghostwriting of The Baby-sitters Club Super Special #14: BSC in the USA, published under the name of its creator, Ann M. Martin.
Bonnie Bryant was born and raised in New York City. She met her husband, Neil W. Hiller, in college, where they both worked on the campus newspaper. They had two sons, Emmons Hiller and Andrew Hiller. Neil Hiller died in 1989. Many of Bonnie's books are dedicated to him.
***from wikipedia.org
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February 27, 2023
Everything bad happens all at once.
January 15, 2023
The lead in to the big horse show took like two previous books, yet they barely spent any time at this particular scene. I found that to be fairly disappointing. I did like the introduction of a character who was inappropriate, because it gave exposure to the issue of boundaries and appropriateness in relationships. I felt like this particular book was not really focused on the bonds of horsemanship, but that is kind of to be expected. A lot of horse girls drift away from the stable when they begin driving, dating, and jobs. Still a fan of this series, and I am emotionally invested in the characters-even after all these years.
January 4, 2009
reread in december 08:
oh, i love these kids! i really missed carole and lisa and stevie. they are more grown up here, but they are still the same. i wish they were still kids, in a way, but i like them growing up also.
also, there's a maxi and jeannie - max's kids!! i forgot about that!
in this one, there's a horse show, callie getting creepy feelings from george, and prancer - lisa's secret present - is pregnant with twins. i'd forgotten how heartbreaking this ending was, and how addicting this series was also. i can only find book 9 and 15, but i'll be searching for the rest . . . i remember reading EVERY. ONE.
(though i think i read them in the bookstore and didn't buy them all. heh.)
oh, i love these kids! i really missed carole and lisa and stevie. they are more grown up here, but they are still the same. i wish they were still kids, in a way, but i like them growing up also.
also, there's a maxi and jeannie - max's kids!! i forgot about that!
in this one, there's a horse show, callie getting creepy feelings from george, and prancer - lisa's secret present - is pregnant with twins. i'd forgotten how heartbreaking this ending was, and how addicting this series was also. i can only find book 9 and 15, but i'll be searching for the rest . . . i remember reading EVERY. ONE.
(though i think i read them in the bookstore and didn't buy them all. heh.)
March 3, 2023
Everything culminates.
April 6, 2013
I did quite enjoy returning to the Saddle Club world in this one, although after all the build up to the show, I thought they would spend more time there. But at least there were lots of horses in this one, something that seemed a bit lacking in the last Pine Hollow Book I read.
I cried at the end too - why do books with animals in always end up like that? Can't we have a few happy endings?
I cried at the end too - why do books with animals in always end up like that? Can't we have a few happy endings?
April 28, 2009
WHY???? Why did shee have to kill of Prancer! And right before Lisa was finally going to own her... Everything bad happens to Lisa.. I swear I cried for hours... Prancer was always my favorite horse out od all of them..
May 27, 2010
It's time for the show! Aer the girls ready?
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