A Horse to Love: 1

by Marsha Hubler

For horse-loving young readers comes the first book in the Keystone Stables series, where a tough foster child named Skye learns about love and forgiveness through a beautiful quarter horse named Champ.

Thirteen-year-old Skye Nicholson has become an expert at making sure no one will ever hurt her again. After her cold and angry behavior and numerous offenses remove her from more foster home placements than she cares to count,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310717922
• ISBN13: 9780310717928
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Zonderkidz
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Youth horse books

great horse book for younger girls. If you haven't read the keystone stables series you will love it. If you have...don't be misled like I was..the first four book are the same book with a different cover..although cute and more modern...we ended up with the same book. after the fourth they are new, that is just a word of wise. IF you haven't read them, you'll love them

Best book ever

When got this book and in one day i read 6 chapters it was so interesting and now i am going to get more of keystone stble book and sinice i love horses this was good for me and this is a 5 star book. Anybody who loves horses this is a must.

Trouble With Skye

The Trouble With Skye is a juvenile fiction that features Skye Nicholson, a troubled teenager who has found herself eye-to-eye with the juvenile court judge for the last time. Certain of her destiny -- Chesterfield Detention Center, Skye showed only contempt for the judge, the situation, and herself. What she hadn't seen in the equation was another set of foster parents. Instead of the detention center, the delinquent finds herself placed in a Christian treatment center filled with tough love, strict rules, and horses. At the home of Eileen and Tom Chambers, Skye learns that there are people who love her enough to be tougher than she is. She discovers a God who loves her enough to call her His own. And she uncovers a love within herself she never knew existed.

Highly recommended

Skye Nicholson is a victim of the foster-parent program. At thirteen, she has already been in and out of five foster homes. She is angry, sullen, defensive and defiant of all attempts at authority. Her latest escapade finds her suspended from school and in danger of being sent to juvenile detention-the end of the road. But Tom and Eileen Chambers, of Keystone Stables, decide they will take a chance on Skye and the judge remands her to their care. This is Skye's last chance yet all she can see is one more foster home. She resentfully settles in to a new routine, determined to take the first opportunity to run away-her answer to everything she can't handle. Skye quickly realizes that this foster home is a lot different than all the others. She has her own room which she is allowed to decorate to suit herself, but she is expected to perform her share of chores both inside the house and outside, including the stables. And she has to earn the privilege of learning to ride Champ, the horse she's fallen in love with. When her disobedience grounds her, she finds that she is not able to ride Champ - she can't even go near him for two weeks. And her desire to ride Champ puts her at odds with her own attitude. Along with the love lavished on her by Tom and Eileen, Skye learns of the love of God and that His love is hers, even though she believes she doesn't deserve it. All she has to do is ask. Will she be able to let go of the bitterness and anger she's lived with so long and accept all the love that is so freely given? THE TROUBLE WITH SKYE is book one in the Keystone Stables series. Marsha Hubler has written with insight showing the mind and feelings of rebellious kids who seem to have fallen through the cracks, shuffled off to one home after another when their foster parents can no longer deal with them. I have no idea how many kids like Skye there are out there, nor do I know if there are enough people like Tom and Eileen around to open their homes and hearts and give the tough love these kids so sorely need. Maybe you have a teen or know of one who is in this same situation. This is good writing. I urge you to find this book. And watch for Book 2: A TRUE TEST FOR SKYE.

Trouble with Skye

As a teacher, this book gave me great insight into the mind of a foster child and how she sees the world especially the attitude about shcool. I could easily place myself in Skye's shoes. I found myself crying with her. I recommend this book to girls in order for them to understand others that don't have the advantages they have.