Download or read book First Term at Ravensbay written by Cressida Burton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Well done, Paige! We're absolutely thrilled to tell you that you're the winner of our Ponies! Ponies! Ponies! magazine 25th year anniversary national 'Pony School' competition. As you know, first prize is for the magazine to pay your fees in full for the Ravensbay Boarding School and Equestrian Academy..." ...and so, eleven-year-old Paige Buchanan is catapulted from her quiet Edinburgh life, living with her mother and attending the local primary school, into the privileged world of Ravensbay where she will discover a whole new vocabulary: snacks are 'tuck', homework is 'prep' and the words 'competition girl' aren't meant as a compliment! Convinced she'll never fit in, Paige is all set to give up her place at school and return home when she sees a blue roan mare running wild in the fields. It's love at first sight for Paige, but the mare, Blue Angel, is to be sold as dangerous unless someone can save her. Suddenly Paige has a reason to stay, but can she face her fears, makes friends and, ultimately, save the pony of her dreams from a terrible fate? First Term at Ravenbay is the first title in this brand new and modern equestrian boarding school series which will follow Paige and her school-mates from their very first day in year seven, through the school years, term by term. Paige's dorm-mates are remote and prickly Taryn, very much in the shadow of her famous showjumping sister and horribly homesick; misfit swot Anna, sent to school by her wealthy, well-meaning aunt; and Paige's nemesis, pony diva Savannah, whose mother is a school governor and will do everything in her power to get the 'competition girl', kicked out of the school. Along the way you'll meet the teachers, prefects, Will the stable lad, and all the ponies! And then there's Blue Angel, a damaged blue roan American Quarter Horse. Paige's determination to save Blue Angel gets her, and her new friends, into trouble, not to mention demerit points for her house, as well as multiple bruises and far too many visits to the headmistress's office. But, in the end, it will all be worth it...won't it? The Ravensbay School Stories are the perfect pony books for fans of Amanda Wills, Stacy Gregg, Jessica Burkhart (Canterwood Crest), Lauren Brooke (Chestnut Hill) and Olivia Tuffin, and for fans of boarding school series such as Malory Towers and Trebizon.

Download or read book First Term at Silver Spires written by Ann Bryant and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Starting at Silver Spires boarding school was really scary, especially sharing a dorm with five girls I'd never met. But now it's like having a sleepover with my best friends every day! There is one girl who's horrible to me though. She'd be different if she knew my secret, but there's no way I'm going to tell her - or anyone else. Because if I did, my lovely fresh start here would be ruined before the first term is even over!"--Cover.

Download or read book Bitter Rivals at Ravensbay written by Cressida Burton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Unless Paige finishes in the top ten of her class in the summer exams, and also places in at least one event at the summer show, the magazine will stop paying her fees and she will have to leave Ravensbay...' Paige Buchanan arrives back at Ravensbay Boarding School and Equestrian Academy expecting to have a full term of summer fun: barbecues, beach rides and training for the showjumping class at the end-of-year summer show on Paprika. She'll also be reunited with Blue Angel, the blue roan American Quarter Horse she's spent the past two terms gentling. Instead, Paige is summoned to the headmistress's office at the start of term and is told that she has to choose between the two ponies. Even worse, the equestrian magazine that pays her scholarship fees is demanding top results in both her academic and equestrian studies or else they will pull their funding. Paige suspects that her best frenemy, Savannah Rees-Myers, is behind all her troubles but she can't prove it and a battle of wills commences between them that affects every girl in Llewellyn Hall. With reliable Paprika allocated to another girl, Paige must get Blue Angel competition ready by the end of term. With the weeks rushing by, and extra prep and revision for the end-of-year exams to fit in too, Paige finds herself racing against time. Because the pressure is well and truly on and, if Paige can't find a way to succeed, her first year at Ravensbay will also be her last!

Download or read book Hunter Trials at Ravensbay written by Cressida Burton and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I can't believe it. Blue Angel hates me! She doesn't even remember me!' Paige Buchanan is looking forward to her second term at Ravensbay Boarding School and Equestrian Academy. It'll be fun to catch up with all her friends, especially her BFF Taryn Konstantine, and she's been chosen to compete for Godolphin House in the end of term hunter trials on her second favourite school pony, Paprika. Best of all, she'll be reunited with Blue Angel, the beautiful blue roan American Quarter Horse that she helped to save in her first term. But when she arrives back at school Blue Angel acts as though Paige is a stranger. How could Blue have forgotten her so easily? Then Paige's feud with her arch-rival, Savannah Rees-Myers, causes her to fall out with her closest friends, causing tensions for everyone on the top floor of Llewellyn Hall. It's only when a shocking accident out on the cross-country course threatens to prevent Paige from taking part in the hunter trials that she realises she has to make amends with both her friends and her foes if she is to be in with any chance of winning the red rosette...

Download or read book Mustard Seed written by Laila Ibrahim and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home. Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth's beloved nurse. The women have an unlikely bond deeper than friendship. Three years after the Civil War, Lisbeth and Mattie are tending their homes and families while Jordan, an aspiring suffragette, teaches at an integrated school. When Lisbeth discovers that her father is dying, she's summoned back to the Virginia plantation where she grew up. There she must face the Confederate family she betrayed by marrying an abolitionist. Jordan and Mattie return to Fair Oaks, too, to save the family they left behind, who still toil in oppression. For Lisbeth, it's a time for reconciliation. For Jordan and Mattie, it's time for liberation. As the Johnsons and Freedmans confront the injustice that binds them, as well as the bitterness and violence that seethes at its heart, the women must find the courage to free their families--and themselves--from the past.

Download or read book How to Be Brave written by Daisy May Johnson and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy May Johnson's How to Be Brave is a delightfully zany yet heartwarming middle-grade novel about a young girl who bands together with her boarding school friends to find her missing mother. Calla North and her mother Elizabeth live a quiet but happy life together. Elizabeth happens to be the world's leading expert on ducks—but unfortunately, being an expert on ducks doesn't always pay the bills (no pun intended). When Elizabeth is offered a well-paid research trip to the Amazon, it's an opportunity too good to miss. But while her mother’s off exploring, Calla winds up at boarding school. No adventures are likely to find her there—or so she thinks. Then Calla receives the terrible news that her mother's plane has gone missing. Can Calla, her friends, and a motley crew of nuns defeat an evil new headmistress and find Elizabeth before it’s too late?

Download or read book The Midwife of Venice written by Roberta Rich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since Anna Diamant’s The Red Tent or Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of intrigue that transcends the boundaries of history. A “lavishly detailed” (Elle Canada) debut that masterfully captures sixteenth-century Venice against a dramatic and poetic tale of suspense. Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers using her secret “birthing spoons.” When a count implores her to attend his dying wife and save their unborn son, she is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but his payment is enough to ransom her husband Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Can she refuse her duty to a woman who is suffering? Hannah’s choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the child and threatens her voyage to Malta, where Isaac, believing her dead in the plague, is preparing to buy his passage to a new life. Told with exceptional skill, The Midwife of Venice brings to life a time and a place cloaked in fascination and mystery and introduces a captivating new talent in historical fiction.

Download or read book Pott s Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster written by Thomas Potts and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Syria s Secret Library written by Mike Thomson and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege. Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged by government forces early in the Syrian Civil War, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by heavy artillery, and under the constant fire of snipers. But deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lay a hidden library. While the streets above echoed with shelling and rifle fire, the secret world below was a haven of books. Long rows of well-thumbed volumes lined almost every wall: bloated editions with grand leather covers, pocket-sized guides to Syrian poetry, and no-nonsense reference books, all arranged in well-ordered lines. But this precious horde was not bought from publishers or loaned by other libraries--they were the books salvaged and scavenged at great personal risk from the doomed city above. The story of this extraordinary place and the people who found purpose and refuge in it is one of hope, human resilience, and above all, the timeless, universal love of literature and the compassion and wisdom it fosters.

Download or read book The Auditions written by Stacy Gregg and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgie Parker has to ace the auditions for Blainford Riding Academy. Only the best riders win places at this elite international boarding school. Competition is fierce, especially from the showjumping girls and boys of the polo clique. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.

Download or read book Behind the Curtain written by Jonathan Wilson and published by Orion. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Epic... Wilson writes captivatingly with humour...anyone with an interest in eastern European sport will be consulting this book for years to come' FINANCIAL TIMES 'This fascinating and perceptive travelogue includes a fine collection of anecdotes too colourful for fiction' SUNDAY TIMES 'A blissful book, lovingly and stylishly written' DAILY TELEGRAPH From the war-ravaged streets of Sarajevo, where turning up for training involved dodging snipers' bullets, to the crumbling splendour of Budapest's Bozsik Stadium, where the likes of Puskás and Kocsis masterminded the fall of England, the landscape of Eastern Europe has changed immeasurably since the fall of communism. Jonathan Wilson has travelled extensively behind the old Iron Curtain, viewing life beyond the fall of the Berlin Wall through the lens of football. Where once the state-controlled teams of the Eastern bloc passed their way with crisp efficiency - a sort of communist version of total football - to considerable success on the European and international stages, today the beautiful game in the East has been opened up to the free market, and throughout the region a sense of chaos pervades. The threat of totalitarian interference no longer remains; but in its place mafia control is generally accompanied with a crippling lack of funds. In BEHIND THE CURTAIN Jonathan Wilson goes in search of the spirit of Hungary's 'Golden Squad' of the early fifties, charts the disintegration of the footballing superpower that was the former Yugoslavia, follows a sorry tale of corruption, mismanagement and Armenian cognac through the Caucasuses, reopens the case of Russia's greatest footballer, Eduard Streltsov, and talks to Jan Tomaszewski about an autumn night at Wembley in 1973...

Download or read book The Riverdale Pony Stories written by Amanda Wills and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pony with a troubled past.A girl who sets out to save him.Do they have the courage to risk everything to find their happy ending?Join Poppy and Cloud on six amazing adventures in The Riverdale Pony Stories box set.THE LOST PONY OF RIVERDALE: Poppy McKeever is reluctant to move to an old cottage on Dartmoor - until she discovers that her new home comes complete with its own pony. But life at Riverdale is not as straight-forward as it seems, especially when Poppy spies a flash of white in the woods. When Poppy is faced with a terrible dilemma - to save her brother or the pony she has always longed for - who will she choose? AGAINST ALL HOPE: A visit to the vet brings some unwelcome news for Poppy. Cloud has broken a bone and may never be sound enough to ride. As she nurses him back to full strength a mysterious girl moves into the village. But the more Poppy gets to know Hope Taylor and her scheming mum Shelley, the more she wonders if there is more to Hope's story than the pair are letting on. Before she can confront them, Cloud falls gravely ill. And Poppy faces the toughest night of her life as she battles to save her pony.INTO THE STORM: Poppy is delighted to win a riding holiday in the Forest of Dean and she and her best friend Scarlett arrive at Oaklands Trekking Centre full of excitement. Poppy struggles to click with her horse, a hairy, bumbling piebald cob with a wall eye and a stubborn streak. But Beau is the least of her worries when her friendship with Scarlett is pushed to breaking point. Trouble is brewing at Oaklands, threatening its future. When a brutal storm rips through the forest, threatening the lives of the Oaklands horses, only Poppy can save them. But first she must place her trust in the most unlikely of heroes.REDHALL RIDERS: When a pony trek ends in tragedy at Redhall Manor Equestrian Centre, Poppy and Scarlett find themselves unexpectedly in charge. It soon becomes clear that someone has a grudge against Redhall and is intent on putting the stables out of business. Poppy's worst nightmare comes true when an intruder lets Cloud out of his stable and the Connemara escapes onto the moor. Convinced he is lost to her forever, Poppy sets out to discover who is behind the vendetta. But can she find the answers before it's too late?THE SECRET OF WITCH COTTAGE: When Poppy stumbles across an abandoned cottage high on the moor, she has no idea of the secrets hidden behind its granite walls.Legend has it that Witch Cottage is haunted, but could the old croft be at the heart of something even more sinister?And what is the connection with Jodie Morgan, the owner of a local horse rescue charity on the brink of closure? Jodie also has a secret. One that Poppy must unravel if she is to save the older girl from making a terrible mistake that could jeopardise both the rescue horses and her own future. MISSING ON THE MOOR: Poppy and Cloud are all set for their first showjumping competition. Only Poppy's nerves stand in her way.When snooty rich girl Georgia Canning disappears halfway through the show, it barely hits Poppy's radar.Until her beloved donkey Chester also goes missing and she realises something is dreadfully wrong. So begins a chain reaction that will see Poppy face up to her arch enemy - and force her to think on her feet before time runs out for both Chester and Georgia.Can Poppy unravel the clues before it's too late?

Download or read book The Witches of St Petersburg written by Imogen Edwards-Jones and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Readers fascinated with the Romanovs and this tumultuous period in Russian history will be enthralled by this deliciously dark and memorable novel.” —Publishers Weekly Inspired by real characters, this transporting historical fiction debut spins the fascinating story of two princesses in the Romanov court who practiced black magic, befriended the Tsarina, and invited Rasputin into their lives—forever changing the course of Russian history. As daughters of the impoverished King of Montenegro, Militza and Stana must fulfill their duty to their father and leave their beloved home for St. Petersburg to be married into senior positions in the Romanov court. For their new alliances to the Russian nobility will help secure the future of the sisters’ native country. Immediately, Militza and Stana feel like outcasts as the aristocracy shuns them for their provincial ways and for dabbling in the occult. Undeterred, the sisters become resolved to make their mark by falling in with the lonely, depressed Tsarina Alexandra, who—as an Anglo-German—is also an outsider and is not fully accepted by members of the court. After numerous failed attempts to precipitate the birth of a son and heir, the Tsarina is desperate and decides to place her faith in the sisters’ expertise with black magic. Promising the Tsarina that they will be able to secure an heir for the Russian dynasty, Militza and Stana hold séances and experiment with rituals and spells. Gurus, clairvoyants, holy fools, and charlatans all try their luck. The closer they become to the Tsarina and the royal family, the more their status—and power—is elevated. But when the sisters invoke a spiritual shaman, who goes by the name of Rasputin, the die is cast. For they have not only irrevocably sealed their own fates—but also that of Russia itself.

Download or read book Take the Reins written by Jessica Burkhart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sasha Silver and her horse, Charm, arrive on the campus of the elite Canterwood Crest Academy, Sasha knows that she's in trouble. She's not exactly welcomed with open arms. One group of girls in particular is used to being the best, the brightest, and the prettiest on the team, and when Sasha shows her skills in the arena, the girls' claws come out. Sasha is determined to prove that she belongs at Canterwood. Will she rise to the occasion and make the advanced riding team by the end of her first semester? Or will the pressure send Sasha packing?

Download or read book Decisions of the Court of Session 1781 1822 written by Scotland. Court of Session and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lost Pony of Riverdale written by Amanda Wills and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppy McKeever is reluctant to move to an old cottage on Dartmoor - until she discovers that her new home comes complete with its own pony.But life at Riverdale is not as straight-forward as it seems, especially when Poppy spies a flash of white in the woods next to the cottage.Her stepmother Caroline is acting strangely and her adrenalin-junkie brother Charlie is on the hunt for big cats. But will Charlie's obsession drive the two children into dangerous territory?And when Poppy is faced with a terrible dilemma - to save her brother or the pony she has always longed for - who will she choose?

Download or read book Horses Forever written by Lynn Mann and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horses Forever is the sequel to The Horses Know Trilogy.