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A Horse Called Bonnie by Barbara Van Tuyl, Pat Johnson

eupomene's review

4.0

The second in this series of books about Sunbonnet, the Bold Ruler filly beloved of Julie Jefferson. Here, Bonnie has returned to her rightful place as racehorse at Deepwater Farm, where Julie now has a job assisting the new trainer, Monty Everett. As always, intrigue and adventure follow when Julie's father is in need of expensive surgery and Julie must begin Bonnie's racing career to help finance it. The first book, The Sweet Running Filly, was pretty black & white with the good guys and the bad guys; here, things are not quite to obvious, which is a refreshing change of pace. I have always thought that this too-short series (just five books) was one of the best to be found in YA horsey fiction. I'm not even a huge racing fan (I prefer to read about eventing) but I love these. The writing is engaging and the stories exciting, Bonnie is wondrously too-good-to-be-true and Julie & Monty are the horsey friends you wish you had.