The Ghost Horse of Meadow Green Kids Can Press, 2005 Read Chapter One Kim sees a beautiful black horse from her school bus window on the very day Gramma-Lou is coming to live with Kim’s family. Gramma-Lou is Kim’s best friend, sharing her passion for horses and loving her just as she is, overwhelming shyness and all. Everything is going to be perfect when Gramma-Lou comes to stay.       But when Kim looks for the horse, it seems to have vanished. Was it a ghost? There’s talk of ghosts around Meadow Green — kids at school claim Kim’s house is haunted by someone named Crackers and that something awful happened there. Kim’s parents say it’s nonsense, but when Gramma-Lou finally arrives, Kim’s perfect plans are shattered and dark secrets come to light in Meadow Green.

"Young readers enthralled by horses and mysteries will gallop through The Ghost Horse of Meadow Green..."                               —Washington Parent [Click here to read more reviews and comments]

The 'seed' of the story: This whole novel started with one conversation. A horse-loving friend, Kim, who lived in Meadow Green (she's short and cute, but not so young as the Kim in the book) told me about a black horse she saw in a field near her home. She went and asked the neighbour if she could pat it and the neighbour asked, "What horse?" "The black horse," said Kim. "But the black horse," the neighbour said, "died twenty years ago." Now Kim knows the difference between a horse and a cow or deer or moose, and she knows she saw a horse. She never saw it again. And I never got the idea out of my head. So a year later I started to write a story which grew and grew and included my own lifelong passion for horses, my shyness as a kid and my mother's Alzheimer's.

Awards  Nominated for the 2006 Snow Willow Award Girl's Life Top Ten Books for Oct-Nov 2005

The Ghost Horse of Meadow Green has been published in English, Finnish, German, Norweigan and Swedish.

[Back to Books]