Horseback Summer

As a horse crazy youngster, summer riding camp was one of my favourite things. A whole glorious week, away from the city. Nothing but trees, as far as the eye can see.But what to do in the middle of a snowy Canadian winter, when camp seemed a million miles away? Well, I did the next best thing to camp, I pulled out my book about camp!Virginia Vail's "Horseback Summer" was one of my favourites. I only owned the first and the fourth of the Horse Crazy series, to this day, I don't know how the story ends. I made good use of that book though, I read it over, and over and over...I could probably quote the whole thing right now! It's a wonderful story, about Emily Jordan's summer at Webster's Country Horse Camp.Emily was supposed to be going with her best friend, Judy, but Judy fell out of a tree while trying to rescue her cat and broke her leg. Emily felt lost with out Judy, they had been friends since they were three and had done everything together, even get chicken pox's!!Emily feels better after arriving at camp, and talking to Marie, one of the owners of the camp. Marie tells her about the first time she went to camp without her twin sister. It doesn't take Emily long to adjust to camp, who couldn't with all those beautiful horses around?But camp isn't all fun, Caroline Lescaux is used to getting all she wants, And what she wants is Emily's horse!! Emily is not a fighter, but she will do anything to keep Joker!Find out what happens to Emily In this exciting book, Horseback Summer by Virginia Vail. It will bring those wonderful memories of summer camp rushing back to you.