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Saddle Club #45

Stable Groom

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Stevie, Carole, and Lisa are ecstatic that stable owner Max Regnery III is about to marry. They can't resist being part of things, so they plan a surprise "bridle" shower for the groom-to-be.

Some serious business also needs their attention. The girls want stablehand Red to become a certified riding counselor. Maybe that way, he can be in charge of Pine Hollow Stables while Max is honeymooning and he'll get some respect from bossy Veronica diAngelo.

It looks as if disaster will strike when both plans are marred by a mix-up that only The Saddle Club could cause!

131 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

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Bonnie Bryant

407 books207 followers
American 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.
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1,110 reviews456 followers
February 17, 2019
Can be summed up with: Veronica is a brat, Stevie once again jumps to pretty big conclusions, Carole and Lisa get swept up along with her and chaos ensues.
Another great addition. It's book 45, so I imagine by this point, you know if the series is your thing or not. (The books can be read out of order, they make sense, but they do follow on from each other, so numbered order is preferable really).
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2,524 reviews20 followers
January 26, 2023
In this book, Max is preparing for his upcoming wedding. The Saddle Club thinks they can run the stable while he is dealing with that and a honeymoon. They just make chaos, really, and it is very evident in this book. Pretty good addition to the series.
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328 reviews10 followers
August 4, 2011
A good series for horse crazy young teens. I loved it when I was younger.
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August 12, 2021
the ending felt overly rushed and overly silly (even for these books lol), but it still gets three stars because it was fun up until then.
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