Siamon, Sharon - Jane Badger Books

About the author

Canadian author Sharon Siamon grew up in rural Southern Ontario. She was educated at the Universities of Toronto, Nipissing and York. As a child, her family were too busy to have horses, but she was horse mad, and would ride the work horses (being scraped off their backs regularly) and her friends’ horses. She has three daughters and is still keen on the outdoor life, writing in the mornings and hiking, canoeing, and riding if she gets the chance. She writes in an office which overlooks the woods, and which is full of horse books and pictures. Wherever she writes, it certainly works; her tally of books is high. As well as contributing titles to the Sleepover series, animal stories and text books, she’s written three horse series, and one general series, Blue Kite, which contains two horse stories.

Her Blue Kite books are aimed at the younger reader, but most of her series are aimed at teenagers, featuring strong heroines finding their way in the world, in stories which sometimes have a dash of romance.

Finding the books
Some of the Mustang Mountain series have been published in the UK by Egmont. All the titles are still in print, and can be found easily secondhand. The Campfire Sleepover was also published in the UK, and is easy to find. Those series titles not published in the UK are easy to find in the USA (and are still in print), and some do turn up in the UK. The Wild Horse Creek series appears to be available as print on demand. The hardest titles to find are the two Blue Kite series titles.

Links and sources
Sharon Siamon’s website (no longer appears to be extant)

Series

Wild Horse Creek
The Mystery Stallion
Coyote Canyon
Heartbreak Hills
Desert Rescue
Runaway Dreams
Mystery Returns

Mustang Mountain
Sky Horse
Fire Horse
Night Horse
Wild Horse
Rodeo Horse
Brave Horse
Free Horse
Swift Horse
Dark Horse
Stone Horse

Saddle Horse Island
Gallop to the Sea
Secrets in the Sand
Race to the Rescue

Blue Kite Series
Fishing for Trouble (non horse)
A Horse for Josie Moon
Gallop for Gold
A Fine Day for Drool (non horse)

Bibliography (horse books only)

A Horse for Josie Moon

(Blue Kite Series) James Lorimer & Company, Toronto, 1988, 153 pp.

Josie is horse mad and desperate for a horse of her own, even though she lives on a tiny island in the middle of a lake in Northern Ontario. During the summer, she works every day on her plan to get a horse, although her parents have told her to forget it.

Gallop For Gold

Blue Kite Series, James Lorimer & Company, Toronto, hb, 1992

The last time they saw him, Remington was scared of everything, but this time he’s come to Big Pickle Lake with surprise: a horse, and a prize winning Icelandic one at that. Unfortunately Remington can’t actually ride the horse.

The Campfire Sleepover

Hodder Children’s Books, London, 1997, 152 pp.
Stabenfeldt, 2008

The sleepover gang love telling stories, and this time Charlie has a spooky horse story to tell.

Sky Horse

Whitecap Books, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2001
Egmont Books, London, 2009, pb, 196 pp.

Meg really wants to go to Mustang Mountain Ranch, with her snobby friend
Alison and her cousin Becky. However, they set off into the mountains late, and get themselves stranded when a storm blows up. Help is miles away, and the girls need all their resourcefulness to survive.

Fire Horse

Whitecap Books, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2002
Egmont Books, London, 2009, pb

Alison leaves a gate open, and the obvious happens: two horses escape. The girls then ride off to the high mountain to meet t heir friend Henry, but when a forest fire starts, they are trapped, leaving the girls to try and survive that, as well as find the missing horses.

Night Horse

Whitecap Books, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2002
Egmont Books, 2009, pb, 179 pp.

Becky’s Mare, Windy, much to Becky’s surprise, is going to have a foal, having run with the wild stallion Wildfire. However, Windy disappears when the foal is due to be born, and the girls think she’ll be in danger from cougars when she’s giving birth: the foal even more so. Can they find her in time?

Wild Horse

Whitecap Books, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2003
Egmont Books, 2009, pb, 198 pp.

My review of Wild Horse

Alison can’t believe it when her mother sells her beloved horse Duchess. She’s furious, as she joins her cousin Becky and friend Meg for a trip to Wyoming to meet eccentric Aunt Terri-Lyn. The ranch is a lot better than they think, but Alison can’t curb her fury, and it looks like she might ruin the summer for
everybody.

Rodeo Horse

Walrus Books, 2003
Egmont Books, 2009, pb, 230 pp.

Alison’s parents split up, and she, her mother and Becky are going to move away from the glamour of New York to a small town out west. Alison is horrified, but cheers up when she discovers she has talents at rodeo.

Brave Horse

Walrus Books, Canada, 2004
Whitecap, Canada, 2004,

Becky, Meg and Alison return to the ranch deep in the Rocky Mountains for the summer holiday. Becky’s thrilled, even though Alison’s still annoying. However, Alison goes too far when she sends someone off on a wild goose chase after a horse called Diablo. Thomas doesn’t return. The girls set off with a search party, but soon realise that he isn’t the only one in danger.

Free Horse

Walrus Books, Canada, 2004

Meg and Thomas have to look after the lodge and Ruby’s son when she falls ill. Tyler is a real problem, particularly when he opens a gate and lets the ranch horses out. As they look for the horses, they find out that the wild herds are being captured and sold. Thomas fails to return, and Meg sets out to find him and save the wild horses.

Swift Horse

Walrus Books, Canada, 2005

Alison is angry at the world (again). She wants a new horse, but it’s not happening. Then she finds the horse she wants; unfortunately he already belongs to someone else, who doesn’t want to sell him. Alison takes matters into her own hands, and gets Skipper and herself into terrible trouble at a barrel race.

Dark Horse

Walrus Books, Canada, 2005

Becky Sanderson enters her first endurance challenge, the Wildflower 50. She and Windy have 50 miles to race over the mountain trails. Becky’s jealous though when her friend Rob, who’s supposed to be helping her, gets distracted by another girl. Becky is caught up in a vicious race with riders who will stop at nothing to win.

Stone Horse

Walrus Books, Canada, 2006

Meg is thrilled to be spending the summer working with her friends and the boy she’s crazy about – Thomas Home. They’re starting a wilderness riding camp. But they hadn’t reckoned on uncooperative campers, mudslides and wolves prowling the mountain. Can they win the group over and make the camp a success?

Gallop to the Sea

Stabenfeldt, Danbury, CT, 2005
Walrus Books, Canada, 2006

Secrets in the Sand

Walrus Books, Canada, 2006
Stabenfeldt, 2007

Set on Nova Scotia’s eastern shore, Kelsie and Andy are strapped for cash when more horses come to Saddle Island. Meanwhile, Hank Harefield, who wants to turn Dark Cove into a tourist centre, schemes to buy Aunt Maggie’s oceanfront property and Saddle Island. Only a search for pirate treasure on the island can help Kelsie and her friends save the horse sanctuary.

Race to the Rescue (Saddle Island)

Whitecap Books, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2008
Stabenfeldt, Danbury, 2007, illus Jennifer Bell, 151 pp.

At her new home in Nova Scotia, Kelsie MacKay receives an urgent phone call asking her to rescue a three year old racehorse. She and her brother Andy have just started school, and hope they can persuade their Father to stay in Dark Cove permanentl

The Mystery Stallion

Whitecap Books, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2008
Stabenfeldt, New York, 2009, illus Jennifer Bell, 152 pp.

Liv and Sophie are twins. Liv is adventurous; Sophie is not, but when trouble brews on their grandparents’ Arizona ranch, the twins band together to save the ranch, a wild stallion, and their family’s famous herd.