Tough-as-nails fourteen-year-old Sid may not have expensive boots like the privileged teen riders in Virginia, but she knows her way around horses. Working with her Uncle Wayne since childhood, she's learned to evaluate horses, break and train them, care for them . . . and ride like a professional. Amid turmoil at home, she dreams of becoming a catch rider?a show rider who can ride anything with hooves. In this salty, suspenseful teen novel, an unexpected opportunity to ride a top-notch horse in an equitation show takes the small-town girl all the way to Madison Square Garden. AGES: 12 up AUTHOR: Jennifer H. Lyne was raised in Virginia, where she spent a lot of time around horses and eventually owned her own show barn. She worked as a location scout for fourteen feature films, and wrote and produced two independent features with her husband. Visit her website at jenniferlyne.squarespace.com.
