Lead Change

Show Jumping Dreams #29

by Claire Svendsen

A devastating accident on a prized show jumper has caused Emily to question her riding goals. In fact, she’s decided that maybe she should just quit. If anything bad was to happen to Bluebird she would just die. She wants to keep him and all her other horses safe and the only way to do that is to let them live out their lives as pasture pets.

Now Emily’s father and the team trainer, Duncan, have the job of convincing her that she should not only ride again but that competing is the best thing for her. The next team event is coming up and if Emily doesn’t ride, she’ll be off the team for good. She doesn’t care right now but they know eventually she will, even though she wants nothing to do with them.

Instead Emily throws herself into helping Faith find a new pony. Macaroni has found a home up north just before the hot weather arrives in Florida and Faith needs a replacement. But the pony that Faith falls in love with is scruffy and untrained and if Faith is going to ride him, she’ll need more than help. She’ll need a miracle. And so will Emily, if she’s ever going to ride again.

Genres: Horses

143 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 28, 2016

About the author

Claire Svendsen was born and raised in England, which means she talks with a vaguely cool accent and drinks a lot of hot tea. Obsessed with horses almost before she could walk, Claire spent her summers dragging the old family typewriter into the garden where she would write books about a rich family giving her a horse. Though she would like you to think they were the masterpieces of a young prodigy, the truth is they never went much further than the first chapter and were awful.

Claire likes to think she can write a lot better now. She also finds writing this biography about herself in the third person both weird and alluring all at the same time. Claire now lives in Florida because she doesn't like cold weather and when she's not busy writing, you can find her hanging at the barn with her thoroughbred Merlin.

Reviews

[Ellie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was amazing I could not put it down. I love Emily because she is my age and we are so much alike. I understand what it was like to lose your nerve after a riding accident. I think that this maybe one of my most favorite books of this series.

[Carmel Ann Sperti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Feed the Horse Bug

LEAD CHANGE is a nice, clean horse story about real kids in real situations. I would recommend it to boys and girls who are already riders or just wish they were. I enjoyed it myself and would have enjoyed it as a kid; I look forward to other books in the series as a pleasant diversion.