Da quando è rimasta orfana, Roo Thorn si sente la ragazza più sfortunata del mondo. Almeno finché non scopre di aver ereditato un'inaspettata fortuna. Insieme alla vivace e stravagante zia Joni, decide così di comprare il cavallo dei suoi sogni, Wonder Boy, un prodigioso campione di salto a ostacoli. Ma quando Wonder viene rubato in circostanze misteriose, Roo e Joni non si danno per vinte e indagano sulla sua scomparsa, trovandosi presto coinvolte in un'avventura pericolosa ma emozionante che le porterà fino in Scozia, a bordo di un camper scalcagnato e tenace come i loro desideri. Fino a che punto si spingeranno, e cosa rischieranno, per ritrovare Wonder? Età di lettura: da 11 anni.

Casey Blue e il suo cavallo Storm si preparano a partecipare al Kentucky Three Day Event, il più prestigioso concorso ippico degli USA! È un sogno diventato realtà, che però si trasforma in un incubo quando il papà di Casey viene accusato di un omicidio. E a peggiorare le cose, Storm comincia a comportarsi di nuovo come il cavallo selvaggio che era un tempo. Di colpo Casey rischia di perdere tutto ciò che è importante per lei, compreso Peter, il suo grande amore... Età di lettura: da 11 anni.

Martine, her grandmother, and her best friend, Ben, are off to Zimbabwe to help her grandmotherÂ's friend, Sadie, run a hotel in the Matobo Hills. But when they arrive, Martine realizes that SadieÂ's got serious trouble. Someone wants to run Sadie off of her land and is willing to stoop to any means necessary. Not only that, but hunters and treasure seekers are overrunning SadieÂ's property in hopes of capturing Khan—a legendary giant leopard. Can Martine and Ben help Sadie and save Khan before itÂ's too late?

This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . .

In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing river. The house has been the scene of a horrific attack by guerrillas, and when Lauren's family settles there, a chain of events is set in motion that will change her life irrevocably.

Rainbow's End captures the overwhelming beauty and extraordinary danger of life in the African bush. Lauren's childhood reads like a girl's own adventure story. At the height of the war, Lauren rides through the wilderness on her horse, Morning Star, encountering lions, crocodiles, snakes, vicious ostriches, and mad cows. Many of the animals are pets, including Miss Piggy and Bacon and an elegant giraffe named Jenny. The constant threat of ruthless guerrillas prowling the land underscores everything, making each day more dangerous, vivid, and prized than the last.

After Independence, Lauren comes to the bitter realization that she'd been on the wrong side of the civil war. While she and her family believed that they were fighting for democracy over Communism, others saw the war as black against white. And when Robert Mugabe comes into power, he oversees the torture and persecution of thousands of members of an opposing tribe and goes on to become one of Africa's legendary dictators. The ending of this beautiful memoir is a fist to the stomach as Lauren realizes that she can be British or American, but she cannot be African. She can love it -- be willing to die for it -- but she cannot claim Africa because she is white.

If Steve Earle weren't a living, breathing person, he'd be a character in a blues song -- a raucous ballad about a gifted rebel who drank too much, lost most of his women in a blizzard of crack and cocaine addiction, and always came out on the wrong side of the law. Somewhere in the midst of all this, he also managed to weld rock to country, the Beatles to Springsteen, and bluegrass to punk, establishing himself among the most thoroughly original and politically astute musicians of his generation. Granted unrestricted access to Steve and his family and friends, Lauren St John has given us a sometimes shocking, often moving, and completely unvarnished biography of one of America's most talismanic sons.