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The founders of The Saddle Club — Stevie Lake, Carole Hanson, and Lisa Atwood — gear up for the adventure of their lives when their friend Kate Devine invites them to her family's dude ranch. They will have a whole week of cowboy-style riding, plus the fun of making Kate a club member.
But when they arrive, the girls soon realize there's more to the West than Hollywood shootout and colorful costumes. To show a cowhand that they're not just "dumb dudes," they pitch in with chores and help on a cattle roundup, where Stevie has a run-in with a dangerous rattlesnake. Another sour note for Stevie: Her birthday is coming up, and no one seems to care. Little does she know that her Saddle Club buddies have a top-secret surprise in the works for her!
What happens when three Eastern riders travel west? Stevie, Lisa, and Carole are about to find out. The Saddle Club has been invited to spend a week at the working ranch of their friend Kate Devine. It turns out to be the trip of a lifetime, complete with Native Americans, roundups, cute ranch hands, and surprise parties. The story centers on Stevie who is away from home on her birthday for the first time and is positive that her friends have forgotten the date. Early one morning she sees a mysterious figure outside and thinks it may be an Indian. The next night the girls wait up and meet Christine, a young woman from a local tribe. Stevie begins to realize the Indians are not like the ones she reads about in Westerns. For readers who are riders or who love horses, this is a good book; they will enjoy the way the story weaves riding terms into the plot. However, without previous riding experience, this book may fall flat. If you do not know what posting and tack are, you may find sections rather boring. Lucky for the girls of The Saddle Club, lots of girls love horses. Reviewer: Heather Robertson Mason
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Brian Landers
reviewed Dude Ranch (Saddle Club Series #6) on February 21, 2019
Dude Ranch (Saddle Club Series #6)
I remembered loving the western-based volumes of this series, but boy, I forgot just how dramatic this one got. That whole rattlesnake scene seemed a little... unnecessary? I don't know. Whenever the girls face a life or death circumstance, I get taken out of the reading a little bit because, like, they're twelve. Where are the adults???
Also, the scene with the girls first meet Christine is incredibly cringe-y. I would like to give the book credit for calling out their racist stereotyping, but it also named Christine's horse and a dog Arrow and Tomahawk, respectively, so I'm not sure it really practiced what it preached. But, I guess even having a native character present and especially having the girls assumptions called out like that was pretty impressive for the time period in which this was written. But, wow, it didn't age super well. You can't have your stereotypes and call them out too.
That said, it's still a really fun book and the first time we get to leave Pine Hollow, which is a nice change of scenery.
But omg, was it normal for three twelve year old girls to fly across the country without an adult????
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