APPALOOSA SUMMER is set in Ottawa, where Meg now self- reliantly accepts a B&B job on an island off the town of Kingston as she can stay alone in her family's holiday cottage. She's sixteen and looking forward to earning her own money. Nobody notices when she dares to drive a few blocks by herself - there's no permanent police on the island - and she observes that the rugged, tractor-driving country lads up here are fine viewing. Jared, in particular. Then she helps Jared with cattle on her day off, and her pay turns out to be a mare someone's tired of keeping. Meg can't believe people give away horses. On the other hand, Salem is an Appaloosa, and she knows judges don't like spotted horses in the show ring.

Salem turns out to have quite a few tricks up her sleeve, and the little black mare with the spotted blanket on her rump impresses even the unwilling Meg. Now what can they get up to together? With summer storms, plenty of hard work and friendship, and helping other people instead of moping about her own life, Meg becomes a different person by the end of the APPALOOSA SUMMER. Tudor Robins has planned two more books to make up the Island Trilogy and if they are anything like as good, with as much attention to detail as the horse training and riding detail in this first story, they're books I definitely want to read. Young adults who like horses are in for an absolute treat.

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