Phoenix

Description

Title: Phoenix
Author: Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03/03/2026
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9781923058774

First in a brilliant new middle grade horse series from the award-winning author of The War That Saved My Life.

The first book in a fresh, exciting horse-kid series from an unexpected horse-kid herself, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of The War That Saved My Life.

Harper’s life just exploded. Her parents are getting a divorce and eleven-year-old Harper and her mother are starting again-in a cramped house, in a new town, where everything feels unfamiliar, including the riding stables next door. Harper has never been around horses before. And no, she does not want to learn to ride. Then a truck dumps a starved and neglected horse right in Harper’s yard. She has no idea what to do with a live horse let alone a nearly dead one.

But one look at the horse’s huge eyes and his skinny body and something inside Harper unlocks. She names the horse Phoenix, and she will not give up on him. Neither, it turns out, will Phoenix give up on her. Will this be Harper’s first step towards new friends and new adventures? Towards riding?

For readers of Pony Club Secrets and anyone who loves horses!

‘Capturing the ache of growing up, Phoenix is as much about loyalty and determination as it is about horses. Kimberly Brubaker Bradley proves once again why she’s one of the finest and boldest storytellers in children’s literature.’ Karys McEwen

‘Horse-obsessed ten-year-old me would have devoured this book in one sitting.’ Nova Weetman, author, with Emily Gale, of Outlaw Girls