SuitabookHorse Mad Academy
Kathy Helidoniotis
- Reading
- Try reading together in short stretches and pause to follow the different threads: riding goals, Honey’s past, the cabin mystery and Ashleigh’s changing family.
- Themes
- Riding and competition: Ashleigh trains at a riding academy, works with a horse that will not do dressage and competes for a chance to ride at nationals. The story sets demanding training and competition as challenges; whether it celebrates, questions or critiques that pressure is not clear.
- Helping a horse: Ashleigh begins to uncover Honey’s mysterious past and wonders whether she can heal her horse’s spirit. The plot foregrounds Ashleigh’s concern for Honey, but it does not show what the horse has experienced or how the story handles that history.
- Worth knowing
- Ashleigh’s schedule is described as exhausting, and she faces time away from her two best friends. The extent of either difficulty is unclear.