Toby the Splendid

by Isabelle Holland

After going against her mother's wishes and buying a horse with her baby sitting money, thirteen-year-old Janet works for his upkeep in the stables but finds she has no extra money for the riding... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802766757
• ISBN13: 9780802766755
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

JUMPING THROUGH HOOPS

Janet, 14 is an accomplished equestrienne. She has a snotty sister named Cynthia who is 2 years her senior. The girls live with their driven attorney mother who seems to have picked a rather ironic profession. Janet herself says that she is always blamed for anything that goes wrong in the household. She is constantly compared to Cynthia and the emphasis placed on both girls is academic and later career success. It is only in the horse world that Janet feels at home. The director of the riding program she is in sees quite a talented equestrienne; her daughter Mara on the other hand wants nothing to do with riding and feels that she was forced into it. A horse related accident drives Mara further from the horse world. Janet's riding is frowned on by both her sister and mother. I didn't like the way her mother accused her of helping a boy humiliate Cynthia after he told Cynthia not to startle the animals. Janet complains about the favortism shown to Cynthia and when she is forbidden to ride after she is bitten by a horse, she stands her ground and says she will stay at the stable to nurse her own horse, Toby, back to health.She spends several weeks at the stable. Meanwhile, Janet's mother is named partner at the law firm and takes Cynthia and some other kids out to dinner. I didn't like the way she didn't even try to contact Janet during that period. I also didn't like Cynthia. A pie in the face for Cynthia!After working in the stables, Janet summons up enough courage to face her once again. The meeting was a triumph and Janet is allowed to keep her cherished horse Toby.

I LOVE THIS BOOK

This is a great book. i read it a few times, and I love it. I would recomend it for any horse crazy kid.