Horses, Adventure, and Growing Up in the Old West
Andi Carter has just turned nine. She and her palomino, Taffy, are old enough to be a real horse-and-rider pair at last! With a beautiful new saddle, Andi is sure she’s ready to learn to trick ride like her friend Riley used to do before he left the ranch.
Sadly, big brother Chad knocks down any trick-riding notions, but Andi cheers up when she meets a new friend at her special spot. Her fun with Sadie is soon threatened, though. They are caught in the middle of a boundary quarrel between the two families. Both Sadie’s pa and Chad are stubborn as mules and neither will back down.
Can Andi and Sadie hang on to their friendship while the grownups are fighting?
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- Grades 3-5
- Horses and ranching
- Classic comparison: the original American Girls series
A six-week unit study for grades 3-5 that explores Andi Saddles Up, book one of the Circle C Stepping Stones series. Old West vocabulary, reading comprehension, as well as the character trait “obedience.” Lots of fun topics about horses and ranching.
- Horse tack
- Writing: cinquains, ABC order, similes
- Trout & trout math
- Word searches and crossword pules
- Geography: map of the Circle C ranch
- Science: a broken arm
- and more!