Welcome to Saddlehill Academy, a Canterwood Crest spinoff series!
SWEET & BITTER RIVALS (Saddlehill Academy #1)
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Abby St. Clair can’t wait to start another season with her elite riding team at her boarding school. She has something to prove after literally falling on her face during the biggest competition of the year the previous season. And she could really use a win after her mom left her family, her dad remarried, and Abby’s new stepsister, Emery, proved to be a strong rider and stiff competition.
Abby wants to return to some semblance of normal but is hiding a secret: she accidentally cost her biggest rival, Selly, a chance at team captain. Then Abby begins to receive anonymous messages, threatening to expose her unwitting sabotage and a video that makes it look like she’s trash-talking Emery. With an important competition on the horizon and the knowledge that someone in her circle knows way too much about her, the pressure is on.
Abby tries to put on blinders and have the perfect meet with her horse, Beau, but she’s about to find out the hard way that secrets don’t make friends at Saddlehill Academy.
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Illustrator: Lana Dudarenko
Art director: Karin Paprocki
(c) 2023 Simon & Schuster
PERFECT REVENGE (Saddlehill Academy #4)
Available now for preorder! Releasing in bookstores on June 4, 2024.
From the author of the Canterwood Crest series comes the third book in a middle grade series about an equestrian boarding school as Abby feels her friends withdrawing and her rival circling.
Abby came clean and apologized to Selly for costing her a shot at team captain--but no good deed goes unpunished, especially with her highly competitive teammates. Now Abby has to be ready for the retaliation that Selly promised is coming and deal with the fact that her best friends Vivi and Thea seem extra distant lately. And with her new friend and crush Mila joining the Foxbury team, Abby is guarded. If her own BFFs are avoiding her, what could she have to offer to Mila? Meanwhile, things in the arena are heating up as the Foxbury riders prepare their applications for a winter clinic ran by Sasha Silver of Canterwood Crest fame.
Can Abby juggle the pressure of impressing her idol and making amends with those around her? Or is something bound to fall?
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Press for SWEET & BITTER RIVALS:
LGBTQ READS:
Most Anticipated Middle Grade Fiction from January-June 2023
Back in the (Literary) Saddle (Teen Librarian Toolbox)
MIDDLE GRADE FICTION
for kids 8-13
A quick and appealing read focusing on second chances. --Kirkus
Illustrator: Lana Dudarenko
Art director: Karin Paprocki
(c) 2023 Simon & Schuster
Illustrator: Lana Dudarenko
Art director: Karin Paprocki
(c) 2024 Simon & Schuster
FALLING HARD (Saddlehill Academy #3)
Available now for preorder! Releasing in bookstores on March 12, 2024.
From the author of the Canterwood Crest series comes the third book in a middle grade series about an equestrian boarding school as Abby feels her friends withdrawing and her rival circling.
Abby came clean and apologized to Selly for costing her a shot at team captain--but no good deed goes unpunished, especially with her highly competitive teammates. Now Abby has to be ready for the retaliation that Selly promised is coming and deal with the fact that her best friends Vivi and Thea seem extra distant lately. And with her new friend and crush Mila joining the Foxbury team, Abby is guarded. If her own BFFs are avoiding her, what could she have to offer to Mila? Meanwhile, things in the arena are heating up as the Foxbury riders prepare their applications for a winter clinic ran by Sasha Silver of Canterwood Crest fame.
Can Abby juggle the pressure of impressing her idol and making amends with those around her? Or is something bound to fall?
Preorder here!
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Effortless and effervescent; ideal for horse-crazy girls ready to move beyond The Saddle Club. --Kirkus
Illustrator: Lana Dudarenko
Art director: Karin Paprocki
(c) 2024 Simon & Schuster
THE SHOWDOWN (Saddlehill Academy #2)
Available now for preorder! Releasing in bookstores on July 25, 2023.
Now that Abby knows which of her so-called friends is the one behind the video of her talking “trash” on Emery, she’d love to do something with that information—if only her blackmailer didn’t know Abby’s one real secret, the one she can’t risk getting out. So, Abby’s stuck. And, to make matters worse, she’s so rattled by the drama that it’s affecting her performance on Beau. Abby wants to be as great a rider as Sasha Silver, but how can she do that when she’s making rookie mistakes?
When tensions come to a head, Abby’s score at the shows isn’t the only thing in jeopardy—so is her place on the team.
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