Washoe County Library System

Cross Country and Endurance takes readers into the world of cross country and endurance competitions, which test the stamina, riding, and jumping abilities of the horse and rider. The text is clear and easy to read, providing both history and rules of the sport. Exciting, engaging photographs and informative diagrams accompany the text.

Grandma Aggie tries to help her granddaughter Jane and the independent pony Popcorn, who were born on the same day, become riding partners.

An injured race horse is rehabilitated to carry riders in hippo therapy--horseback riding used as physical therapy.

Introduces readers to the basics of horse care and riding.

Photographs and text describe a first horseback riding lesson.

At summer camp Jane feels like an outsider among the cliquish rich girls who board their horses at Sunny Acres farm, and when the horse she has been riding is sold to another camper, she feels even worse until her teacher asks her to help train a beautiful but skittish new horse, and the experience brings out the best in her.

Carole, Stevie, and Lisa make new friends and have a variety of adventures when they visit Kate on her family's dude ranch near the Rocky Mountains.

Realizing that his purpose in life is to help others, Macadoo, a colt whose sire is a huge Belgian stallion, survives a kill auction and trains as a vault jumper before happily pursuing work as a therapeutic riding horse.