Tudor Robins

Sixteen-year-old Meg Traherne has never known loss. Until the beautiful, talented horse she trained herself, drops dead underneath her in the show ring. Jared Strickland has been living with loss ever since his father died in a tragic farming accident. Meg escapes from her grief by changing everything about her life; moving away from home to spend her summer living on an island in the St. Lawrence River, scrubbing toilets and waiting on guests at a B&B. Once there, she meets Jared; doing his best to keep anything else in his life from changing. When Jared offers Meg a scruffy appaloosa mare out of a friend's back field, it's the beginning of a journey that will change both of them by summer's end.

Appaloosa Summer

The one that got away. Meg's heard the expression before, but now she truly understands it. She wishes she didn't. Because the one that got away was the horse who tugged at Meg's heartstrings. The horse with the looks, personality ... and price tag ... Meg was looking for. As Thanksgiving approaches, Meg finds herself sapped of energy or motivation; riding on autopilot and wondering whether she even wants to own a horse anymore. In this prequel to Tudor Robins' much-loved Island Series, you'll meet Meg and see how the people around her - best friend Slate, brother Cam, her parents - help her get past her horse heartbreak and set her up for her fateful first appaloosa summer on the island.

Six-Month Horse

Giving up her pony didn't make Austen's sister better. Sacrificing her social life hasn't done it either. But with her sister's life at stake, Austen's never good at saying no. So, when their mom decides a move to the island is just what Eliot needs, Austen says good-bye to her perfect summer plans. Rand's not on the island by choice, either. After drinking, driving, and crashing his neighbour's car, he's been sent to live with his uncle until a spot opens up for him at boarding school. If too-nice Austen, and too-much-trouble Rand are opposites maybe that's why they're so attracted to each other. New characters mix with familiar faces - not to mention plenty of horses and dogs - in this fourth book of the much-loved Island Series.

Faults

Starving, starving ... Grace is always starving these days. But Grace is also strong, and determined, and skinny. For the first time ever Grace is as thin as she wants to be - nearly - and there's no way she's giving that up. Except, what if she has to give up other things to be able to keep wearing her new "skinny" breeches? What if it comes down to a choice between all the horses she loves - Sprite, the ferocious jumper, and Iowa, the sweet greenie, and Whinny, the abused but tough mare - and the numbers on the scale, the numbers on food labels, the numbers always running through her head? Grace knows what her stepmother, Annabelle, wants her to decide. She knows what Matt - gorgeous, amazing Matt - wants her to do. She knows what the doctors think. But she also knows nobody else can make this decision for her. And sometimes she's not even sure if she's got the strength to do it. There is danger in living with anorexia, and there is also hope. Objects in Mirror is a truthful exploration of these extremes and of the struggles that lie between them.

Objects in Mirror

A summer at one of the poshest riding camps in the province could be perfect - unless you're Lacey Strickland, and you're leaving Salem, Meg, and Jared behind on the island.

Join Up

The island. Meg can't wait to get back. She's excited to see her new mare kick up her heels in Salem's old paddock. She's impatient to run on country roads between breeze-blown hayfields. Mostly, Meg longs to be back with Jared again. It's going to be the perfect summer. But can real life live up to Meg's huge expectations? When Jared makes a heart-wrenching confession, Meg has to re-evaluate everything. If perfection's not possible, can Meg find a way to build happiness for herself? Fans of Appaloosa Summer will welcome the return to familiar places and characters, with the chance to be captivated by more of the beauty, romance, and dreaminess of Meg's summer island life.

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