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K. M. Peyton

    2 agosto 1929 – 19 dicembre 2023
    Flambards
    Fly-By-Night
    Prove Yourself a Hero
    Horse and Pony Stories
    Surfers: Danger Offshore
    Blind Beauty
    • Blind Beauty

      • 362pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      After she's expelled from her latest school, Tessa's domineering step-father finds her a job at the local stables. She's left to look after Shiner, an ugly and seemingly untalented horse. But her interest in Shiner is fired when she discovers who his mother was.

      Blind Beauty
      4,5
    • Surfers: Danger Offshore

      • 128pagine
      • 5 ore di lettura

      Corky is a champion windsurfer and Shiner is still learning. Shiner has mixed feelings about going on holiday with Corky as he doesn't think he'll be able to cope with surfing at sea after only practising on the reservoir. However, not only does Shiner cope with the sea, but he joins Corky in rescuing a boy - an illegal immigrant - who has been abandoned on an offshore island. Together the boys outrun and outwit the men behind the immigration scam and secure the boy's freedom.

      Surfers: Danger Offshore
      4,0
    • Horse and Pony Stories

      • 192pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      This anthology includes approximately ten previously published short stories and extracts from novels spanning a wide range of stories involving horses.

      Horse and Pony Stories
      3,5
    • Kidnapping is always an unpleasant business, but in Jonathan Meredith's case it is positively barbaric. Kept for hours on end in claustrophobic confinement, he remembers that he used to imagine suffocation as an innocuous death. He would never think that again.

      Prove Yourself a Hero
      3,0
    • Fly-By-Night

      • 176pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      Ruth has never ridden a pony before - but as soon as she lays eyes on lively Fly-by-Night, she knows he has to be hers. But where is she going to find the money for a saddle and bridle - and who is going to teach her to ride?

      Fly-By-Night
      3,9
    • Flambards

      • 224pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      A totally absorbing novel about twelve-year-old Christina who is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina discovers a passion for horses and riding but finds herself part of a strange household, divided by emotional undercurrents and cruelty.

      Flambards
      4,1
    • Jonathan Meredith did not like Robin, the English master at Meddington Boarding School. It was not his inability to control his classes that he disliked, but rather his indifference to the feelings of others. When Robin drowns in the river close to the school, Jonathan suspects murder.

      Midsummer Night's Death
      3,5
    • Rowan is desperate for a horse of her own - so when her father narrowly misses colliding with a dark, beautiful stray, she feels he was always supposed to be hers. Exciting, passionate and adventurous, these stories from bestselling author K.M. Peyton are the perfect read for any girl who loves horses.

      The Swallow Tale
      3,9
    • Minna's Quest

      • 192pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      Strong-willed Minna is just a blacksmith's daughter, yet she raises a sickly abandoned foal to become the pride of the Roman cavalry. And when her fort is threatened by blood-thirsty pirates, the fate of her people depends on Minna and her beloved horse alone, as they set out on an impossible journey to fetch help.

      Minna's Quest
      3,0
    • No Turning Back

      • 192pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      When Minna's true love Theo leaves the lonely fort of Othona for the big city, Minna cannot bear to be left behind and steals away on her beloved pony, Silva, to follow him. But she has no idea that her actions will spark a deadly chain of events from which there can be no turning back.

      No Turning Back
      3,4