Chestnut Hill (novel Series) - Description of Novels

Description of Novels

"The New Class" - After Dylan moves into her new room with Honey Harper and Lynsey Harrison, she starts a feud with Malory O'Neil. At the start of riding lessons, Dylan hopes to be riding Morello, but is put to ride someone else. In the third riding lesson she is put to ride Morello, and is told that he will be the pony she rides for the rest of the year, Malory is given Hardy to ride. Near the end of the book, Malory announces that she's leaving Chestnut Hill. Desperate to clear things up with her, Dylan persuades her to stay. Then at the end of the book,the teams trials take place and the Junior Jumping Team is Eleanor Dixon, Olivia Buckley, Lindsay Harrison, Malory O'Neil. The reserve rider is Dylan!

"Making Strides" - Ms. Carmichael takes Malory and Dylan to a stable near Cheney Falls to buy some new horses. Malory becomes attached to a young, afraid horse named Tybalt who Malory thinks is her grandparents neighbours horse. She persuades Ms Carmichael to buy Tybalt along with, Winter Wonderland (Winnie) and Foxy Lady. To start Tybalt's training, Ms Carmichael gives a hat with names of the riders in to Malory and Dylan's other best friend Honey Harper, to pick out someone to ride Tybalt. Unfortunately, Honey picks out Lynsey Harrison, who Dylan along with her best friend Lani Hernandez hate. Top notch rider Lynsey, has a bad experience on Tybalt after he bucks her off. Malory and Lani then have the idea, to call in horse expert Amy Fleming.

"Heart Of Gold" - When Patience's father Edward Hunter Duvall buys his daughter an experienced horse, Honey can't help but fall in love with her. Patience is careless and treats her pony: Moonlight Minuet (Also known as Minnie) like a fashion ornament. Honey begins to care for the connamara horse, but along with getting used to the excitement of the new term, parties and homework, comes another thing to stress and worry about for Honey, the fact that her twin brother Sam, who has been in remission for leukaemia, has been infected again. While Honey struggles to deal with it all, she begins to push her friends away, not even telling them about the fact that she has a twin. Eventually she tells Dylan, Lani and Malory but only after a long time does she tell Lani how sick Sam actually is. The two hatch a plan to stow away from the All Schools League Show in which they're helping the Chestnut Hill team, and head to the hospital where Sam is ill. They manage to get in a heap of trouble, but it is worth it for Honey to see her twin. Malory and Dylan are shocked at what Honey was going through and the four friends end up stronger than ever. Thankfully, also Sam's fever goes down and he has improved.

"Playing For Keeps" - When Lani's grades aren't as good as they should be, her parents decide to move her to her sisters school in California so that she can focus on school instead of horses and the riding team. Lani also falls off of Colorado and sprains her wrists. Lani has until the end of term at Chestnut Hill to bring her grades up so she starts to organise a fundraiser, a rodeo fundraiser. She gets really stressed out with all the extra credit projects she's taking on, and spends all her time studying. However, in the competition for the best barrel racer, Lani wins! When her parents find out how much effort their youngest daughter put into this fundraiser, they decide to let her stay at Chestnut Hill.

"Team Spirit" - After a bad performance by Chestnut Hill in a competition, girls start being really critical of the Director of Riding-Dylan's aunt Ali. Her friends think she is just being paranoid, but Dylan starts a petition to keep Ali at the school. Throughout the term she keeps campaigning against the 'Three C's', but in the end she finds out there was never any danger of Ali leaving, after all!