Everyday Friends

By Lucy Diggs

Book Overview

Overshadowed by her accomplished older sister, thirteen-year-old Marcy feels insecure and incapable of sticking to any project or activity until she meets thirteen-year-old Natasha, an accomplished horsewoman, and determines to learn to ride herself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816710473
• ISBN13: 9780816710478
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Troll Communications Llc
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great, Real, Horse-lovers book

I LOVE this book. I think i've checked it out of the library at least 12 times. It's very true to life and just how learning to ride, jumping, showing, and owning a horse is really like. Its unlike most horse stories in that its not JUST about horses (theres a bunch of other really good themes in it too) and it's not unreal at all. The main characters aren't at all near perfect, and they dont win everything all the time. Besides just being a horse story, it's great for anyone. I LOVE THIS BOOK!

Wonderful story!

This is my all-time favorite horse book (fictional). It's a wonderful story and the horse facts are the most realistic in any book I've ever read.It starts off with Marcy, an only child, who loses her long-time best friend to the 'cool' crowd. She ends up meeting the new girl, Nat, who is a horse-nut and starts taking learning to ride on Nat's horse, under the instruction of Nat's bohemian mother.The book continues on with Marcy going to her first horse show, then her first big time horse show. She also learns some things about Nat that threaten their friendship.The story is just great, I can't say enough about it. Being a horse person myself, I love how accurate it is. Most horse books really screw up what horse shows are like - this one has it down pat, including correct class names.Anyways, I would highly recommend to any horse-crazy teen looking for something a little different than the Saddle Club/Thoroughbred books. Those are good in their own right, but this book (while a little old now) is much more realistic and better.

A truly delightful vingette of life with horses

This is the sort of book I've always wanted to write myself - a realistic novel where even when things go as you might hope, they don't always go as you plan. And yet, that's still okay.The book begins with Marcy starting the eighth grade only to realize that her very best friend of many years is dumping her and hanging out with other girls. Depressed, Marcy starts taking new routes to and from school and discovers a new neighbor who has a horse. She's never ridden but is immediately entranced, and her neighbors offer her lessons.Along the way, we watch Marcy struggle with piano, which is important to Marcy's family but not to Marcy, and struggle with riding, which is not as easy as she first thought. But, through the year, she learns that the struggle is worthwhile, both with riding and in life. What I especially enjoyed about this book was that it was no fairy-tale - Marcy does not find the glowing mare of her dreams, but instead finds a real horse that she loves just as much. She does not win an armful of blue ribbons at her first show. She despairs, she gets frightened, and yet she eventually succeeds - just like the rest of us in real life.

A FANTASTIC BOOK FOR ANY HORSE LOVER!!!!!

I thought this was an absoloutley fabulous book!! I am a horselover, and I thought this book was amazing!! I loved the way Lucy Diggs put so much feeling and thought into every character, even the horses!! I also loved all of the show "scenes", they made me feel like i was really there!! I also liked how the people in this book weren't perfect, they were just normal people; sometimes Marcy would fall off, or get run away with. I have read other books where the person doesn't even know how to ride, and suddenly they take a blue ribbon in a show!! Anyway, I think this is a great book for every 13 year old horsey lover, and i reccomend it to anyone who loves jumping (like me). I hope this review was helpful to you, and enjoy Everyday Friends!!! ^_^

Everyday Friends

This book reveals friendship and the human love for horses. When you read this book you feel like your the charaters, ready to make desicions. I fell in love wiht the book and I know you will to.