Lisa: The Inside Story

Saddle Club Inside Stories

by Bonnie Bryant

When her great-aunt suggests that Lisa keep a diary as a way to explore her feelings, Lisa is unable to understand how that could help her in any way, yet upon recording her most private moments, Lisa quickly realizes the importance of self-reflection. Original.

Genres: Horses, Childrens, Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 30, 2013

About the author

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.
***from wikipedia.org

Reviews

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ah, I remember being totally obsessed with this show when I was younger. Now, rereading it again, I'm totally struck by how juvenile these were. Half the stuff they talk about sound more like elementary school than middle school. If the book is like the show, not even all the info about horses is right. It was kind of nice rereading this, since it was such a big thing in my childhood. It's a good thing I read this one though, since it was one of the better ones.

[Ruby]

Lisa is probably my favorite Saddle Club character!

[Claire · Rating 3 out of 5]

Filling in some gaps in my collection with this one; mostly a montage ep kind of a book with a framing story.

[Lizzy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lisa is so boring lol.

[Sienna · Rating 1 out of 5]

I like Lisa in The Saddle Club, but I don't really like the inside stories. I LOVE the saddle club so much but these inside stories are just so boring I would prefer to sit down on the couch and do absolutely nothing at all.

[Sofiya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book, I think you will enjoy it (Ruby) and everybody else.

[Katlyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lisa is stuck up........well, not exactly, but I didn't like her................