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Saddle Club Super Edition #7
Christmas Treasure
Christmas is coming and Max wants Horse Wise to get in the holiday spirit. He announces that they are going to have Secret Santas, but there's a catch: You can't give something; you have to do something. It sounds like fun, until they draw names. Lisa gets Max. Carole gets Lisa. And Stevie gets Veronica. Carole would love to do something for Lisa but, since they're always doing things for each other, what should she do to make this time special? As for Lisa, her visiting relatives aren't giving her room to breathe—there's no time to do anything for Max. And Stevie would love to do something to Veronica—but that wouldn't be in the holiday spirit.
Why is doing the "right thing" so hard?
Why is doing the "right thing" so hard?
224 pages, Paperback
First published November 10, 1998
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About the author
Bonnie Bryant
387 books200 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 23, 2019
This sort of reads like the final Saddle Club book, even though I think they published about 20 more after this one. Perhaps it's simply because it ends on a beautiful note and leads right into an extract of the first Pine Hollow book, The Long Ride (a spinoff series following the girls through high school, it's a more mature series and it's fascinating to follow them beyond The Saddle Club). So while it technically isn't, it wraps up the series in way that has me feel it is the last one.
It's another Christmas book and the final of the 7 Super Editions. The time loop is ever more apparent in this one, as this is at least their fourth Christmas together, though they appear the same age! There is actually at least one more Christmas book to come, called Best Friends, but like with The Simpsons, it's best to just accept the realities of this fictional universe. It's far more realistic than another series I enjoyed as young reader, Sweet Valley High, with its surprisingly high frequency of doppelgangers, cults, deaths and general cattiness. Perhaps The Saddle Club gets away with bending time because it's more rooted in reality in other ways, because it manages to feel real, even as you know the math is a little off.
Christmas Treasure features a Pine Hollow secret Santa, where instead of giving a gift, you do a good deed for the person chosen. All of these are nice to read about, and it's actually a really good idea! Also, Carole has been helping her father sort all the toys the Marines have collected to give out to needy children. When they are all stolen, The Saddle Club is determined to raise as much money as possible to help replace them.
It's actually a simple book, especially by Super Edition standards, but I love that about it. A perfectly nice, ordinary Christmas, focused on good deeds, charity and friendship. A genuine joy to read.
🎅🐎🎄☕🍔❄🎁💟🎵
It's another Christmas book and the final of the 7 Super Editions. The time loop is ever more apparent in this one, as this is at least their fourth Christmas together, though they appear the same age! There is actually at least one more Christmas book to come, called Best Friends, but like with The Simpsons, it's best to just accept the realities of this fictional universe. It's far more realistic than another series I enjoyed as young reader, Sweet Valley High, with its surprisingly high frequency of doppelgangers, cults, deaths and general cattiness. Perhaps The Saddle Club gets away with bending time because it's more rooted in reality in other ways, because it manages to feel real, even as you know the math is a little off.
Christmas Treasure features a Pine Hollow secret Santa, where instead of giving a gift, you do a good deed for the person chosen. All of these are nice to read about, and it's actually a really good idea! Also, Carole has been helping her father sort all the toys the Marines have collected to give out to needy children. When they are all stolen, The Saddle Club is determined to raise as much money as possible to help replace them.
It's actually a simple book, especially by Super Edition standards, but I love that about it. A perfectly nice, ordinary Christmas, focused on good deeds, charity and friendship. A genuine joy to read.
🎅🐎🎄☕🍔❄🎁💟🎵
January 17, 2013
Lots of things happen at Christmastime, around the Pine Hollow stables. There's Secret Santas, donkey costumes, Scottish relatives, and glamorous news reporters.
There is a damper though. The Marine Corps have been collecting gifts for less-fortunate children to receive on Christmas. However, the thousands of toys are stolen just a few days before Christmas, and there isn't much time to rebuild the stock of gifts before time is up.
Who knows, maybe the Saddle Club will pitch in and help?
It was pure delight to read this book!
Definitely one of my favorites from The Saddle Club series.
There is a damper though. The Marine Corps have been collecting gifts for less-fortunate children to receive on Christmas. However, the thousands of toys are stolen just a few days before Christmas, and there isn't much time to rebuild the stock of gifts before time is up.
Who knows, maybe the Saddle Club will pitch in and help?
It was pure delight to read this book!
Definitely one of my favorites from The Saddle Club series.
December 26, 2018
It was very interesting having some Scottish customs, speech and food in it. I enjoyed it very much.
January 26, 2023
too much warm fuzzies, not enough drama.
June 27, 2024
3.25 ⭐
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