Windy Creek Stables: Natalie and the Summer of Surprises

In Natalie and the Summer of Surprises, Natalie has to discover if she can become the horse girl her mom has always wanted her to be.

Natalie is a city kid who loves indoor actives like reading and watching movies. So spending the summer stuck at her mom’s riding school in nowhere, Virginia is the worst idea she’s ever heard. But eleven-year-olds don’t get to make the rules, which is why Natalie is at Windy Creek with a parent she barely knows and a bunch of horses she couldn’t care less about.

Things go from bad to worse when Natalie realizes her mother actually expects her to ride. Windy Creek is full of horse-crazy kids Natalie has nothing in common with, and her mom clearly wishes she had any of them for a daughter instead. Natalie would give anything to get out of there and go back to the city, and even more than that, she wishes her mom didn’t expect her to be someone she’s clearly not.

With no choice but to learn to ride, Natalie begrudgingly participates in Windy Creek's summer horse camp alongside pretty, stuck up Harper, who is a million times better with horses than Natalie is and won’t let her forget it, and energetic and fun Presley, who is at least happy to be Natalie's friend. Slowly, Natalie learns that a little perseverance and grit go a long way, and if she gives the riders (and horses) at Windy Creek a chance, they’ll give her one, too.

Natalie and the Worst Summer Ever is the third book in Kaitlyn Sage Patterson's engaging Windy Creek Stables series.

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Windy Creek Stables: Natalie and the Summer of Surprises

In Natalie and the Summer of Surprises, Natalie has to discover if she can become the horse girl her mom has always wanted her to be.

Natalie is a city kid who loves indoor actives like reading and watching movies. So spending the summer stuck at her mom’s riding school in nowhere, Virginia is the worst idea she’s ever heard. But eleven-year-olds don’t get to make the rules, which is why Natalie is at Windy Creek with a parent she barely knows and a bunch of horses she couldn’t care less about.

Things go from bad to worse when Natalie realizes her mother actually expects her to ride. Windy Creek is full of horse-crazy kids Natalie has nothing in common with, and her mom clearly wishes she had any of them for a daughter instead. Natalie would give anything to get out of there and go back to the city, and even more than that, she wishes her mom didn’t expect her to be someone she’s clearly not.

With no choice but to learn to ride, Natalie begrudgingly participates in Windy Creek's summer horse camp alongside pretty, stuck up Harper, who is a million times better with horses than Natalie is and won’t let her forget it, and energetic and fun Presley, who is at least happy to be Natalie's friend. Slowly, Natalie learns that a little perseverance and grit go a long way, and if she gives the riders (and horses) at Windy Creek a chance, they’ll give her one, too.

Natalie and the Worst Summer Ever is the third book in Kaitlyn Sage Patterson's engaging Windy Creek Stables series.

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Windy Creek Stables: Natalie and the Summer of Surprises

Windy Creek Stables: Natalie and the Summer of Surprises

by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson
Windy Creek Stables: Natalie and the Summer of Surprises

Windy Creek Stables: Natalie and the Summer of Surprises

by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

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In Natalie and the Summer of Surprises, Natalie has to discover if she can become the horse girl her mom has always wanted her to be.

Natalie is a city kid who loves indoor actives like reading and watching movies. So spending the summer stuck at her mom’s riding school in nowhere, Virginia is the worst idea she’s ever heard. But eleven-year-olds don’t get to make the rules, which is why Natalie is at Windy Creek with a parent she barely knows and a bunch of horses she couldn’t care less about.

Things go from bad to worse when Natalie realizes her mother actually expects her to ride. Windy Creek is full of horse-crazy kids Natalie has nothing in common with, and her mom clearly wishes she had any of them for a daughter instead. Natalie would give anything to get out of there and go back to the city, and even more than that, she wishes her mom didn’t expect her to be someone she’s clearly not.

With no choice but to learn to ride, Natalie begrudgingly participates in Windy Creek's summer horse camp alongside pretty, stuck up Harper, who is a million times better with horses than Natalie is and won’t let her forget it, and energetic and fun Presley, who is at least happy to be Natalie's friend. Slowly, Natalie learns that a little perseverance and grit go a long way, and if she gives the riders (and horses) at Windy Creek a chance, they’ll give her one, too.

Natalie and the Worst Summer Ever is the third book in Kaitlyn Sage Patterson's engaging Windy Creek Stables series.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250331427
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Publication date: 05/12/2026
Series: Windy Creek Stables , #3
Sold by: Macmillan
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Kaitlyn Sage Patterson grew up with her nose in a book outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in East Tennessee. She started begging her parents to put her on a horse as soon as she learned to talk. After six long years they finally relented, and Kaitlyn began learning to ride. By the time she was ten she was working off extra lesson time by mucking stalls and helping out around the barn. Kaitlyn never shook the riding bug, and she is currently training her first horse, an off the track thoroughbred named Boon, to compete in dressage and eventing. In addition to Boon, her menagerie of adopted animals includes two black trashcan cats, a one-eyed ragdoll kitten, and a toothless greyhound. She is the author of the Windy Creek Stables series.
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