Summer of the Dancing Horse

Book excerpt: Its summer, and sixteen-year-old Maria Leon is delighted to be back home at Rancho Las Brisas in Baja California no school, no schedules, just long rides in the Mexican hills on her Andalusian stallion, Regalo. When she finds her horse gone, her whole world is turned upside-down in an instant. Nick, the ranch foreman, tells her, Your uncle Roberto has taken all the show horses to California to sell them. But Regalo is mine. Grandfather gave him to me at Christmas just before he died, she cries, staring in dismay at all the empty corrals. There must be some mistake. Broken-hearted, but determined, Maria vows to go to Southern California and get her horse back before her uncle has a chance to sell him. Will she find her horse? Can she stop the sale of the dancing stallion? Join Maria and her three new American friends as they try to find Regalo. And learn, with Maria, the secret of her parents mysterious deaths in California. Once again, award-winning author, Nancy Sanderson, has written an intriguing story about her favorite subject, girls and their horses. In Summer of the Dancing Horse, Sanderson brings together the girls from her previous three books to help their new friend, Maria, rescue her horse. Readers will enjoy getting reacquainted with old friends and meeting new ones in this exciting story of horses, heartbreak and hope.