Things are hard for eleven-year-old Yonder. Her mother died and her father has sunk into sadness. She doesn't have a friend to her name . . . except for Dirt, the Shetland pony next door. Dirt has problems of his own. He's overweight, he's always in trouble, and his owner is the mean Miss Enid, who doesn't have the patience for a pony's natural curiosity. His only friend is Yonder, the scrawny girl next door. So when Miss Enid decides to sell Dirt...

To prove her worth as a potential queen, Princess Isabella and her beloved pony Penny embark on a quest for twelve precious jewels.

With the help of her clever Shetland pony, Emma tries to find a way to keep her neighbor from selling her beloved Horseshoe Pond to some unscrupulous buyers who want to turn it into a campground.

"Sheltie is very happy when Mudlark, Marjorie Wallace's donkey, comes to stay, but one morning Mudlark disappears. Only Sheltie seems to know what happened to him ..."