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Alyssa
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Hide & Seek
ePub ISBN 9781864714623
Kindle ISBN 9781864717174
Original Print Edition
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First published by Random House Australia in 2007
Copyright © Alyssa Brugman 2007
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National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry
Brugman, Alyssa, 1974–.
Hide and seek.
For primary school children.
ISBN: 9781741662207
1. Horses – Juvenile fiction. I. Title.
A823.4
Cover photographs courtesy Getty Images
Cover and internal design by Sandra Nobes
Typeset in Sabon 11/15.5pt by Midland Typesetters, Australia
Printed and bound by Griffin Press, South Australia
Author's note
In this book Shelby learns how to trick ride. To research this book, I attended the Harris Entertain-ment Trick Riding School on the Central Coast of New South Wales. The technicalities of trick riding are based on what I observed there, but the characters in this book are fictional.
Like any horse riding discipline, trick riding is dangerous. The tricks in this book are technically accurate, but please don't try them unless a professional supervises you. Never, ever try any trick riding by yourself.
My special thanks to Heath and Krissy Harris, to Bridie Sparkes who explained everything patiently, and also to the trick riding students – Kali Siecker, Seann Pitman and Teleah Jensen, who made it look easy.
This book is for beautiful Kaz, who would not make a very good trick riding horse.
Thanks also to Christopher, who identified (and continues to indulge) Brugman's Theorem of Circum-equinus – everything in the universe relates back to ponies if you think about it for long enough.
Table of Contents
By the Same Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Author's Note
Chapter 1 No Diablo
Chapter 2 Search
Chapter 3 The Suspicious Sergeant
Chapter 4 Acrobatics
Chapter 5 Packing a Bag
Chapter 6 Aunty Jenny's Trip
Chapter 7 A Surprise Meeting
Chapter 8 Shelby's Um Friend
Chapter 9 Hot Chips
Chapter 10 A Guy
Chapter 11 Equus Caballus
Chapter 12 Karma
Chapter 13 The Barney
Chapter 14 A Different Version
Chapter 15 Operation Beelzebub
Chapter 16 Capital
Chapter 17 A Clue
Chapter 18 Contradictions
Chapter 19 A Delicate Balance
Chapter 20 Undercover
Chapter 21 Stand Aside
Chapter 22 The Great Fandango
Chapter 23 Boundless Plains
Chapter 24 Traitor-Potato
Chapter 25 Briefing Dad
Chapter 26 Getting Serious
Chapter 27 The List
Chapter 28 Facing the Music
Chapter 29 Kibitzing
Chapter 30 Jigsaw
Chapter 31 The Experiment
Chapter 32 A Surprise
Chapter 33 The Herd
Chapter 34 Science
Chapter 35 Mrs Crook's Blessing
Chapter 36 Shelby's Destiny
About the Author
1 No Diablo
'Weird,' Shelby mumbled, stepping outside the stable and turning on the spot in the yard.
It was difficult to see because her rain-hood hugged close around her face, as if she was wearing