Melanie's Last Ride

by Alice Leonhardt

Book Overview

Will Melanie have to leave Whitebrook? Melanie Graham loves spending time in Kentucky with her cousin Christina. She loves being away from New York City. And most of all, Melanie loves riding That's why she's determined to win the competition next week. Her dad is flying all the way from New York to watch. Once he sees well how well Melanie rides, he'll let her stay in Kentucky for good. But then someone begins sabotaging the other riders--and everyone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061065315
• ISBN13: 9780061065316
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: HarperEntertainment
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

From the beginning!!!

I have been reading this series since the forst book-A Horse Called Wonder- was published. I am now 18 years old and although the reading level of the books have not changed, I still read them. I have every book written in the series and reread them all the time. I agree that I love the racing more than the eventing but the books are still great. I'va always been fascinated by horseracing but I do not own a horse. I ride at my aunt and uncles farm,which is the reason I got interested in horses in the first place. If anyone has the e-mail address of Joanna Campbell please let me know. I really want to e-mail her about how fantastic her creation is. Don't criticize the books please. They are wonderful and I hope they never stop coming!

Good!!!

Okay. Let me get somethin' straight here. Why does everyone think these new books are so bad? Maybe I like the old ones better, but these new ones are good. I really liked this and Camp Saddlebrook. But, hey, give all these authors credit: it's hard to write a book! Believe me, I'm writing three horse books right now titled: Dream Horses, A Horse With Justice, and the third one isn't titled yet.

Great!!

I have loved reading these books since I was in 2nd grade. The racing has always been exciting and I could never put them down. I admit that the jumping isn't as exciting but it's all about love for horses! And I think that the people that are writing nasty things are being unreasonable. I'll admit that Joanna needs to come back and get back into racing. By the way, what ever happened to Cindy?

UGH!!!

Man! I wish that they would speed up theses books! I mean, with Ashleigh she went from 12 to 16 years old and it only took 5 books to do THAT(and I liked that compared to the new generation of the series.)! Now with Christina and all these other kids its taken 5 books just to get them about one month, it seems like, into the future. Gosh!! An then there is the problem with Sterling. I mean, with the horses I've worked with in the past once we've solved their problem they usually don't do that anymore. But in these books Chritina is ALWAYS having problems. To me it just to unrealistic.

Melanie is a SNOT!!

Allison Estes should move over and let Joanna Cambell write the books! Christina should not be such a brat! What happened to ashleigh's baby? Where is Cindy? Have you already forgotten that niether Ashleigh or Mike have a brother called Will? What happened to Len? Why does A.E. make Christina give a million dollar horse who doesn't obey her?