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I LOVE THIS BOOK IT MADE ME SCREAM WHEN I GOT IT. YOU WILL LOVE THIS SO STOP WATCHING TV AND PICK UP A BOOK. YOU WON'T REGREAT IT.Phantom Stallion #19: Secret Star (Phantom Stallion) YOU CAN GET IT AT AMAZON.COM. I LOVE THIS BOOK. I HOPE YOU'LL WILL TO.

This is a great book, but sometimes it got a little boring. It seemed like the author just wrote some words down for some of it. It's about a movie star horse coming to River Bend Ranch. The horse seemed to have lost its spark. And Sam needs to help him.

I really enjoyed Secret Star. I thought it was better well-paced than book 17 which went a little too fast. It was really different from the other books though, but not in a bad way. Alot of action, and you won't be able to stop reading it until the end! Then you'll want to read it over again! I know I did. Jake was in this one alot as well, though Jen and alot of the other characters weren't.

My teenage daughter can't get enough of the Phantom Stallion series. and now my younger daughters are reading them. They are very well written and my daughters can't stop reading them and anticipate the next book being printed. They make a great gift to any horse lover.

Okay, for the most part I love this series. I own all the books and I love the author's writing style. But this book is a pretty far step down from the standard! Please don't read further if you don't want spoilers because I am giving some!

So, out of nowhere, a stunt rider (not an actress, a stunt rider who stands in for the actors) shows up with her prized stunt stallion. Now that allow is utterly silly. A five-year-old stallion is a stunt horse with years of experience? For one thing, stallions are almost never used as stunt horses, occasionally the main horse is a stallion, but most of his doubles are geldings or mares, not stallions.

Anyway, she shows up to stay at River Bend Ranch basically to hide the fact that her stallion has "lost his sparkle" to quote the back of the book. Basically, the horse is depressed and unhappy. That is all there is to it. He responds out of habit and hates being brought into work to the point of being aggressive. However, because he has a scene (and no, not a huge dangerous scene like the back of the book says) in two days, they are going to try and "fix" him before then. Again, not realistic. Problems like this take a lot of time to fix.

So, here is Sam, Jake, and Bayfire's (the stunt stallion) owner, Inez all trying to figure out what is wrong with him. It is pretty easy to figure out that the horse is just tired of his job, of being controlled constantly, of being watched constantly, of having demands made constantly. Jake mentions that he needs time to "just be a horse", which is probably right. But they don't do that, instead they ride and mess with him, which is not letting him just be a horse. Realistically, they probably should have turned him out for a few weeks and just let him relax and think things over, but can't do that in the book because of the pressure of the movie. Apparently, Bayfire is the last stunt animal Inez has so everything is riding on him. So, they put money and her business before the horse if we want to be honest. Now, Inez does love Bayfire, but she seems pretty darn worried about fixing him fast so they don't loose their job anyway.

At one point, they go out riding and happen around the Phantom. Predictably as a stallion, Bayfire gets very worked up being around him since stallions very commonly do that around each other. But everyone acts like it is great and that he has his "sparkle" back! What? The horse is screaming, rearing, and nearly uncontrollable! That is not enjoying his job and showing off again, that is him acting like a stallion and ignoring his rider!

They try a few other things, but in the end the day comes when it is time for the stunt and Bayfire is still not "sparkling". So, Inez drags Sam and Ace along to "inspire" Bayfire; apparently, they are not smart enough to make the connection that Bayfire was acting like a stallion around a stallion, and it had nothing to do with the Phantom being a mustang. So, they get ready for the stunt and unrealistically the Phantom is there, apparently just hanging around. Huh? Since when to wild stallions leave their herds to stand around 10 feet from a bunch of strange humans lugging around tons of equipment? Bayfire freaks out completely and runs away, and Sam ends up doing the stunt. She did not really intend to; she was trying to encourage Bayfire to do it. The "dangerous" stunt is really just jumping across a tiny waterfall, not diving off a cliff or anything like they make it sound on the back of the book.

Now, they are all worried, but the film crew caught Sam doing the stunt and the director thought it was Inez and Bayfire and liked it so they kept it to cover up that Bayfire could not do the job. Not exactly promoting honesty, though for a nice reason I guess. But what really annoys me is that we are supposed to believe they could not tell the difference between a 13-year-old in sweats riding a 14 hand mustang bareback and an adult woman wearing a peasant outfit on a 16.2 stallion wearing a saddle? Come on, even if it was at a distance you could tell! Even silhouetted, you could tell because of the outline of the saddle and clothes! But apparently not the people in the book so they get away with it.

Oh, and even more unrealistic to me, is that they still think mustangs have something to do with Bayfire acting up! Oh, and they don't call it acting badly, which is what rearing, bolting, and all that is; they act like it is good because he is "exciting" again. So, Sam tells Inez that she will keep the secret if Inez adopts a mustang to be "Bayfire's inspiration". What?! You have got to be kidding! So, what she is going to adopt a mustang stallion for someone to hold off screen so that anytime Bayfire has to act fiery he can see/smell the other stallion and completely go wild again? Sorry, but rearing, screaming, and not listening to his handler is not being "fiery", it is just plain dangerous! That really annoyed me. They did nothing to really help Bayfire, they just have apparently decided to use his natural instincts to rile him up, regardless of if they can actually keep him controlled and from hurting himself or others.

The "solution" for Bayfire's problem really irritated me. There was much more in the book, but a lack of older characters. They briefly introduced a young actress who was shallow and pointless as far as I can understand. She is nice to men, nasty to Sam, and polite to adults. She is all about animals and I guess I was supposed to feel touched and sorry for her since she "had a bad childhood" or something, but really I just found her annoying and saw no reason for her in the book.

The writing style is still nice, but this story was really pretty awful. The way Bayfire was handled was totally unrealistic and sets a bad example, at least to me.

An okay read, but no new ground covered. Reads like a fairly well-documented listing of a fan's opinions...of which plenty may be found in various Internet locations.

Having just finished my first and last reading of this book, I must voice my disappointment. If the book had been titled My Opinions On The Works of Yes or Previously Published Interviews and Reviews of Yes Albums, I probably wouldn't have felt as if I had been ripped off by Mr. Farley and the book publishers. However, the title as it now stands really misrepresents the content. This is not a book on the individuals who make up Yes. Unlike the books I've read regarding such luminaries as Paul McCartney, Wayne Shorter, John Lennon, etc. this book could have been written by anyone of we Yes fans. One gets the idea that the members of Yes really had nothing to do with this book. I say that because it seems that any comments from the band came from previously published magazines and fanzines. The bulk of the content is simply the author's opinions about every Yes album ever made! I could have done without his opinions as I have my own already. Quite simply, this book is a boring read. I would not recommend it to anyone. Even a complete novice to Yes' music would fare better by listening to their albums and forming their own opinions.

There are other books written about Yes but this one exceeded my expectations. It is a logically ordered account that has some great quotes from the band members over the years. Alan Farley has given a thorough review of the extraordinary history and music of Yes. Read it to be informed.

I've been an avid listener of Yes music since my high school days in 1978, and finally decided to order a book convering the history of the band and insight into their music. The book is well organized and a very interesting read. I am very happy with the content, and it only has stimulated my desire to read more books on this favorite band of mine!

This book was fantastic. It covered the band from the very beginning up to the Magnification tour. A great deal of insight into song creation, production, and peppered with some nice tidbits on song meaning.

Definitely a recommended source for any real Yes fan.

But because it was still such an awesome book, I couldn't give it just a 4. It only lasted 2 days, but they were two very exciting awesome days. It starts with Sam and Jen going on the annual Darton Rodeo cattle drive. But an offer on Ace for $3000 -- the same amount her dad needs to fix his truck -- and a mysterious "mountian mare" keeps her mind busy while trying to confince everyone that Linc Slocum is behind the threats.

A vert exciting book, even if the ending was predictable right from the start.

i have to say it was pretty good book. but what really put me off was that i pretty much knew who was the owner of the rocky mountian mare and it rushed alot. but it was a good book i just hope the other books will be a little better.

Oooooooo Mountain Mare, and all the other books in the Phantom series are great! If you love horses, this is the series for you! It doesnt matter what kind of riding you do, dressage, barrel racing, endurance....these books are what you gotta read! The Phantom series is funny, suspensful, horse-filled, and real. Ya, there are plenty of horse books on the market, which probobly talk about girls somehow getting the horse of their dreams and living happily ever after, and dont get me wrong- Ill read any horse book you throw at me, but my favorite series is the Phantom, a series that's unique.

I don't know what you guys are talking about I thought this book was great just like the others. Oh and it did say why Jen and Sam were there, you just must have been reading to fast.

Well, The Phantom Stallions Series can officially said to be going downhill a bit. The author just seems to be rushing more and forgetting things left and right from past books, or completely ignoring them.

This books opens with Sam and Jen going on some cattle drive; we are never really told how or why they are part of the cattle drive, just that they are going and will temporarily be part of some well-known group with black horses and teal clothing.

Linc Slocum makes an appearance; ever more cartoonish in his villainy. He has now deteriorated into plain foolishness by saying rude things about Sam around others and "subtly" threatening her to stop being nosy and all that. Not exactly a huge surprise or shocker there since he has been getting that way more and more with each book. Of course, Sam is entirely too eager to blame everything she can on Linc Slocum as well.

In the story, a pretty trick-trained mare suddenly shows up and follows the drive into town. They put her on TV and hope to find her owner. Later in the night, Sam has a "feeling" and goes to check on her, but gets locked in a feed room by an unseen stranger. Unsurprisingly, she is sure Linc Slocum is to blame because he wants the unusually colored mare.

Of course, it is not Linc Slocum. It turns out the mare belonged to a girl who was introduced earlier in the book as having been in an accident with an "empty" horse trailer. Apparently her truck and trailer turned over; however all she got was a few bumps as did the mare. Not very realistic honestly; maybe if the truck had just lost control, but turning over completely and the horse just had some bruises? Anyway the mare is a Rocky Mountain horse with a genetic problem, who was going to apparently be put to sleep by the girl's father's "evil" farm manager, but the girl tries to save her by stealing her. The girl's boyfriend is trying to help her and he is the one who locked Sam in the feed room because he was surprised and could not think of anything else to do.

Well, they all have a talk with the girl and have a laugh, and they drive away with the mare. No one stops them despite the fact the mare is technically a stolen horse; or presses charges because the girl gave false reports or released a domestic horse in the wild. Nothing is every said if the mare was given to the girl or what as apparently she was declared dead by the farm manager. We just have to assume the mare has a happy ending.

A couple of things really bothered me in this book. One was the boyfriend was apparently going to use a "war bridle" to lead the mare away when Sam startled him. They all act like that is a normal thing, but war bridles are NOT nice pieces of equipment; they are actually rather painful and only rarely used on horses. You would NOT use a war bridle to move a horse anywhere; you would use a normal halter or something like that.

Also, Sam just keeps mentally whining and whining about Shy Boots! Every darn time the colt is mentioned she keeps obsessing about how Linc "promised" her the colt. Well, if you read the original book, he never did! He mentioned that he might give it to her if her father approved, nothing else. Ugh, I am just getting tired of the line "she decided not to remind Linc that he had promised her Apache Hotspot's foal". Good grief, give it a rest!

And the Phantom really no longer seems to matter in the stories. oh, he shows up once in a while and looks pretty and majestic and all that. And of course, he shows up to court EVERY mare ever mentioned in the entire series. But other than that, he really does not seem to do anything. He no longer seems to give a fig about Sam or acknowledge her; he just randomly appears to flirt with some mare, then disappears again.

There are several more little things that happen in the book, but I don't want to give away too much. In all, the book was okay but very rushed and easy to predict. It is painfully clear what the plot is going to be and whom the horse will turn out to belong to and all that. I am not saying the book should have been a complex mystery, but I should not be able to figure out everything that is going to happen within the first chapter or two.

I love Terri Farley's writing style and descriptions, but she really needs to work on the plot a little more. I get the feeling she is so worried about getting the books out there as quickly as possibly, like ever couple of months, that she is sacrificing the quality of the story itself.

This was a pretty good PS book, but not my favorite. Sam was a little to harsh on Ryan, worrying about him suddenly wanting the phantom, and where was Jake this entire book? Then he's there in the next one.

I guess the main thing that bothered me about this book is that Ryan, Sam, Jen and even Dr. Scott expected Hotspot to accept Shyboots even after they were sepreated for a few months, chances are she wouldn't.

But over all it was very good and I enjoyed it.

This book was great!Filled with adventure and of course
mustangs.Sam and Jen's friendship is put to the test.Jen
is begining to be more gogo gaga over Ryan.it was good.

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Okay,let`s see. There must be some pretty STUPID horse-owners in the neighborhood if all there horses get loose and run wild!!?? See,everyone`s horse gets loose and runs free. Sam`s does. Pretty irresponsible on her part. Another thing,mares are loving and devoted mothers. There`s a 0.01% chance they`re gonna run wild and leave their own foal. You just can`t combine realisim with fantasy. It just makes things too strange. Try reading the High Hurdles series instead.

First of all I do not agree with the person on the last of this list.This is a very good book and should be read by anyone who loves horses.It is also very educational about mustangs.Sam is like a old friend to me and so is Jake and Jen.The Dawn Runner is a very good book because it tests Jens and Sams relationships,and all the other exiciting adventures.

~a horse lover

I wanted to comment on the first review. I agree with the person that some of Terri Farley's books are unrealistic, but that's what books are sometimes supposed to be. Terri Farley has done a wonderful job with all of the books I have read (I'm about to start 'Blue Wings' [her 20th book]), and when I read her books, I am in my own world. She does a wonderful job of making everything seem real, yet a bit unrealistic and fantasy-like at the same time. Then again, that's just my opinion....not everyone has to agree with me. I will write another review once I have read this book. ~Bookworm

Don't get me wrong - Ms. Bannister has done a laudable job with this "instructional manual." The only point I feel compelled to make is this "survival guide" is "97%" better suited for a first year school librarian. After a full year "on the job", most of her book's contents are researched and dealt with - by necessity. Read this book the summer before starting as a first year school librarian or after being away from the profession for a few years.

This book truely is a survival guide! As a new media specialist I was basically clueless about how to get started. This book offers suggestions for everything a media specialist has to deal within an elementary school. It offers everything from positioning furnisher, sample activities/lesson plans, reproducible worksheets and letters, etc. This book is easy to read and understand. I would recommend it to all new media specialist or veterans looking for new ideas.

This book, which I discovered in a catalog from World Almanac, I believe, was a very useful asset in my two years of learning experience as an emerging librarian. I found information which was verified in my graduate school coursework to gain my Masters' Degree in Library Science. Later, I found many recommendations and commendations for this volume. I will continue to return to this book for resources and ideas and good basic aids to the librarian in an elementary school. Additionally, their are great ideas that can translate to middle school and high school librarians and their many, multi-tasking roles!

That's what this book does. It helps very much.
It has forms, charts, letters, and patterns to
help you. Topics such as physical organization
of the library, how to build
support for your programs, discipline,
storytimes, and booktalks are just a
few of the many subjects covered in this book.

It goes beyond what you learn in school and it is
all in this one handy volume.

As a recently certified school library media specialist, I was excited to see this title. I purchased it without checking the date. Big mistake. The book has more information on card catalogs than computerized catalog systems. The information on planning and lessons was very basic. The "chapter" on dicipline is 9 pages long (3 pages of reproducibles). I was hoping for information on weeding, collection development and promoting the library to students, and actual lesson ideas. This book does not deliver. It may have been useful 14 years ago, but should not be considered today. Any introductory class on educational media or library science will cover all of this and more.

This entry in the Chip Hilton series has much of the excitement of the others, but there is a serious flaw in the plot. Chip is an incoming senior at Valley Falls High school and considered by most people to be the best football player in the state. The nucleus of their state championship football team is back, so everyone expects great things from the Valley Falls team. However, Coach Rockwell takes ill and through political maneuverings engaged in by the mayor, an assistant coach named Brasher is named interim coach. The principal of the school is a spineless nonentity who goes along with little more than a soft protest. The attitude and temperament of this coach are very negative, which is the flaw in the story.
Brasher is so violent and brutal that he physically assaults the football players and another assistant coach. This is tolerated, which is absurd. No member of a teaching or coaching staff could punch a player or a fellow coach without being immediately discharged and formally charged with assault. Brasher also berates the team for his mistakes and publicly ridicules players for what he perceives as insubordination to his foolish policies. The use of this plot device is unfortunate, because the story was otherwise good enough to survive without the exaggerated violence. With it, the story becomes difficult to read.

A Pass and a Prayer is a great book to read for all sports fans. It's fiction, but it's realistic fiction. Also, if you like this one, you should read the rest of the series by Coach Clair Bee. THis book is number 5. It's also about high school football. So, if you go to high school football games and enjoy them, you will probabally like this book. As you can see, this book is great for sports fans. Especially football fans!

I have read just about all of the 20+ volumes in the Hilton series and this has always been my favorite. In addition to being good sports stories, Chip always had to overcome some evil forces to triumph in the end. The evil is so strong in this story, that I want to punch the air in satisfaction when Chip wins out - no matter how many times I have read the book. If you are new to the series, however, I would suggest you start with the first story - "Touchdown Pass" - and go from there.

In his final year of high school Chip Hilton, All-State quarterback, is ready to lead his veteran Valley Falls High School team to a second straight championship. Tragedy strikes when coach Henry Rockwell is hospitalized and is fighting for his life. One of the towns leading citizens and the head of the school board conspire to oust the "Rock". They bring in an unscrupulous outsider and install him against Rockwell's recommendation. He quickly causes disharmony and chaos on the team. Hilton is suspended from the team several times. The way that Chip deals with adversity and fights back, makes great reading. It also teaches excellent values to young folks. A must read for Chip Hilton fans

This volume seems to be one of the favorites of Chip Hilton fans everywhere. The forces of evil mobilized against Chip are particularly bad and the final scene actually a bit violent (well, at least by the standards of fifty years ago). Read and see how far we, as a people, have fallen in half a century. Of course, better still, read the original. The current edition has been updated to satisfy the dogmas of feminism and the cliches of youth culture. Gosh, doesn't anyone get that it was those very forces which destroyed the world of Chip and Coach Rockwell and gave us America of 1999?!

This is truly the most realistic, culture-related, fantastic, adventurous books Farley has come up with! My eyes where glued to the pages at all times. And in some parts, I was even rubbing gooseflesh from my arms. This is an excellent read! Must buy for young and older Black Stallion lovers! Please check it out, it's worth it.

This book is definitly not as good as the Black Stallion but it is decent. Some parts get kind of exciting and a good portion of the book keeps you guessing even though sometimes it seems like Farley let a chapter get boring. Anyways though, it puts everything together between the Black Stallion and the Young Black Stallion and it's also nice because it gives you a little taste of a different culture

This book is just odd. I am NOT impressed with Steve Farley's contribution to the series. The whole book is weird. Apparently Alec is in the desert with the Black and starts off on some nonsense about the horsehead nebula that was never mentioned before. Then he has a weird vision/dream about the Black's beginnings. There is some stupidity about the Black's father being "the Stallion of the Midnight Sky" or some made-up silliness that has no basis I have ever heard in Arabic or Bedouin culture. It was mentioned and confirmed more than once in the earlier books that Shetan's father was ZIYADAH, not some mystical ghost horse or whatever. The Black hating all humans intensely because the villain hit him once is silliness as well. I can understand an abused horse being violent with people, but a horse being chased and struck once would not make it a man-hating killer. Even the fall he had afterward from trying to run up the side of a mountain seems unlikely to make him some feral, vicious stallion. Also, having the Black climb around with mountain goats was unrealistic as no horse, no matter how agile, could do that: they don't have the right hooves, they weigh too much, are too large, and are not built to do it. Also, the Bedouin scout that follows the Black is a completely unlikable character, who is selfish and makes excuses for his own actions. The whole book he blames the evil sheik for the death of a man HE stabbed (when he was told NOT to kill anyone) and only stays with the Black so he can catch him and sell him for lots of money. The book ends with Alec waking up and remembering all this stuff as if he were the Bedouin scout or something, which is odd and really rather needless.

In all, disappointing and unrealistic. I think the series would have been better off WITHOUT this book. It is not the worst book I have read, but I would not suggest buying it before you read it. You may feel you wasted your money.

It's a wonderful book for people who like adventurous stories, very well written in my point of view. Yet it still had a few bad parts here and there. You should defently buy!

This is the book you want to read if you want to hear about all of the blacks early adventures right up to the point when The Black boards The Drake. Great for adventure lovers and all who want to know the whole story. Yet something about it doesn't appeal to me maybe its because theres no Alec. You can judge fthis book yourself but I'd definetly try it.

I love this book! It's so awsome! Although I did like The Black Stallion's Shadow more, I loved this book also! I also love the original Black Series and The Young Black Stallion also! Please keep writing these, they are VERY good!

I just loved this book! Stephen finally got into the heads of the characters and they feel like the Henry and Alec of old. I liked the way he made Storm and Creo. I hope he continues to write Black Stallion books. I was overjoyed when I saw this book offered. Please write more about Alec and the Black Mr. Farely! They are indeed the most famous fictional Duo ever!

Ok, I have my own Black Stallion die hard webpage, which I'm a critic. One fault I found in this book was, that Steven makes Alec 18, but if these series was placed in real life, Alec would e at least 25 or maybe even older. In some parts of the book he makes them look too New Yorky, and mostly getting out of the horse theme more into the people, which makes it a little challenging to get into. I'm 12 years old, I've read each book a million times over, and so obsessed I've made my own page. (E-M me for URL) But...concidering this book is part of TBS series, its really worth it to read. - Britt

I find Steve Farley's continuation of his father's "Black Stallion" series to be very disappointing. In this book, for example, he would have us believe that Alec Ramsay is 18 years old, and that only four years have passed since he and the Black were shipwrecked on the island. Yet he has Henry mention the Black's offspring from previous books, Satan and Black Minx. How on earth can we believe that all of the adventures told about in his father's books took place in four short years? Alec was already going to college in the third book, "Son of the Black Stallion," and the Black was already 7 years old in "Black Stallion and Satan." It might have been best if Walter Farley's books were left to stand on their own, without his son trying to carry them on. I hate to say that, because I love Alec and the Black.

I am 12 years old. This book is FABULOUS! Any horse lover will love this book, and share the feelings with all the characters of the book, such as Julie and Danielle. It is very life-like and you can relate to it. It is a sad story, but very happy at times. I would recommend this to ages 10-18. This series is truly the greatest and I can't wait to start #2, "A Horse Called Raven".

This is an excellent book!! Dannielle feels nothing but anger against Alec, but that changes when she gets to know him better.

I loved this book it probaly took me 45 minutes it was so good. I also love horses so if you do not like horses you will not understand this book

As a long time reader of the 'Black Stallion' series, I was curious to see what Mr. Farley's son had done with the stories since I felt Walter Farley left the series unfinished. I loved the series as a child and have even re-read the books as an adult. Although I applaud anyone's efforts in writing and publishing a book, Steven Farley might have wanted to write about a different subject. The 'Young Black Stallion' series is a big disappointment; the stories are silly and pointless. In several instances the author has taken sentences, word for word, from his father's earlier 'Black Stallion' books and simply changed the character's names. The characters are poorly developed and clumsy with each other. The plots have a lot of holes in them, even for children. Based on the earlier stories, Alec could not possibly be only 18 and why should he be? Alec supposedly wanted the farm where Danielle lived in order to board his horses there, then with the exception of a mare and foal, all the horses he supposedly acquired the farm for remained at another facility. A Thoroughbred operation such as Alec and Henry had supposedly built would not isolate one promising colt and spend so much one-on-one time. Where were all the other Hopeful Farm colts? The series would probably read better if it did try to weave the 'Black Stallion' characters into it, but rather expanded its own story.

Read the books as a kid... read them all! Now I'm reading them to my 6 year old. So I ordered this set assuming they were the first 4 books of series... I'm sure if I'd paid more attention, I would have seen that they weren't. So, if you're looking for a chronological set, don't get this set... but if you just want a great Black Stallion set, enojoy!

As a kid, I read all four of these books by the famed horsewriter, Walter Farley. But believe me, I didn't stop there. I read just about everything he wrote!Farley wrote with a style that easily appeals to the young imagination by creating a feeling of extreme excitement and suspense, even when there may not have been anything to be excited about. Still, whether you like his hyped-up adventure stories or not, you have to admit, he knew his horses. Walter Farley invented some of the most amazing and best-loved fictional horses ever, such as The Black, Satan, and Flame, the island stallion.This collection contains two of my all-time favorites: the original The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Revolts. The Black Stallion Returns was good, but not great (Besides, I always thought The Black should have stayed with Alec). Then, like in most assorted collections, there's a dud, The Black Stallion's Ghost. When I read it the first time (I was 10), I didn't like it because it scared the heck out of me and I was never a fan of horror...anything. Later when I read it, I just decided it wasn't that good. Still, maybe someone would like it around Halloween. . . .Recommended to anyone even mildly interested in horses, excitement, or both.

The young girl I gave this set to was delighted, and although she is only in 2nd grade, she is able to read them with very little help and is enjoying them very much. The price was very affordable too and enabled me to give her more than just one book.