History Literature / TheSaddleClub

* NewTransferStudent: Lisa, in the very beginning. She provides a viewpoint as she gets to know Stevie and Carole, and is also new to the equestrian scene. Through her, readers learn about both the characters and the horses. In the Pine Hollow books Callie and Scott Forester. %% ** TheWatson

* StalkerWithACrush: Callie has one in the ''Pine Hollow'' series, a fellow rider named George Wheeler. It starts as just a regular, if slightly intense, crush, but in later books he starts increasingly crossing the line, constantly showing up wherever she happens to be, peeking through windows at her house, and even trying to engineer a situation on the trail where she'd have no choice but to accept his "help" (this one backfires when he ends up getting himself knocked unconscious in the process). Callie becomes increasingly uncomfortable around him but believes she's overreacting, so she doesn't call him out or reach out for help. In the penultimate book, she finally has the realization of how not okay his behavior is and tells him off, which he responds to by cornering her in her horse's stall and trying to forcibly kiss her. After this incident, she reports the stalking and gets a restraining order against him; the final book reveals that his family abruptly moved out of town after the order was filed, much to Callie's relief.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Said about Stevie, the resident {{tomboy}}, on the somewhat rare occasion that she dresses up.

* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** Pepper was put down in the book 'Autumn Trial' after he was put out to pasture. But in the episode 'The Home Straight', Pepper was bought by Bud and looked after.
** In the books, Delilah dies from an incurable virus, and in the ''Pine Hollow'' series, Prancer dies of complications after becoming pregnant with twins. Neither of them die in the TV show, though Delilah isn't seen or mentioned after season 1.

* [[SportsDad Sports Mom]]: The subplot of ''Horse Spy'' involves two teenage champion riders who both have mothers of this type; while the riders themselves themselves, Lucy and Ellen, have a pretty FriendlyRivalry, their mothers are constantly squabbling over every little thing and they aren't shy about their distaste for each other, each other's daughters, and even each other's ''horses'' (and even seem at times to be troubled by the fact that their daughters actually get along). At the climax of the story, it's revealed that Ellen's mother hired someone to take Lucy's horse on a reckless trail ride right before a major competition in hopes of injuring the horse so that the other girl will have to scratch the meet. Fortunately, the Saddle Club foils that plan.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Said about Stevie, the resident {{tomboy}}, on the somewhat rare occasion that she dresses up.

* SignificantNameOverlap: In one book, Carole has three boys crushing on her and they're all named Josh.

* AllForNothing: The subplot of the first book involves Stevie setting up a mini-business to try and earn money for an overnight riding trip after her parents threaten not to pay for it if she doesn't get her grades up, with an upcoming math project that Stevie really doesn't want to do being a major sticking point. She successfully earns more than enough money, but ends up blowing most of it on an impulse purchase, leaving her with nowhere near enough for the trip. Subsequently {{Subverted|Trope}} when Lisa sees the meticulous accounting records Stevie's been keeping and realizes that Stevie can use the business accounting records as a math project. Stevie gets a solid grade on the project, satisfying her parents' conditions for paying for the trip.

* AllForNothing: The subplot of the first book involves Stevie setting up a mini-business to try and earn money for an overnight riding trip after her parents threaten not to pay for it if she doesn't get her grades up. She successfully earns more than enough money, but ends up blowing most of it on an impulse purchase. Subsequently {{Subverted|Trope}} when Lisa realizes that Stevie's accounting from her business can also be used as an end-of-year project for her math class, thereby allowing her to get the grade to satisfy her parents.

* YouJustToldMe: In ''Pine Hollow'', after Carole's father finds out she lied to a teacher to get a do-over after failing a test, she tells him she felt really bad, "especially about the cheating part", apparently assuming (for reasons that seem to have more to do with guilt than logic) that once they figured out she'd lied, they'd also deduced the rest of the story[[note]]during the ensuing retest, she'd looked up some of the answers when her teacher briefly left the room[[/note]]. As it turns out, neither the teacher nor her father had any idea about the cheating; they thought the lying was the extent of it, and it was Carole herself who inadvertently confessed to a much more serious offense.

* YouJustToldMe: In ''Pine Hollow'', after Carole's father finds out she lied to a teacher to get a do-over after failing a test, she tells him she felt really bad, "especially about the cheating part", apparently assuming (for reasons that seem to have more to do with guilt than logic) that once they figured out she'd lied, they'd also deduced the rest of the story[[note]]during the ensuing retest, she'd looked up some of the answers when her teacher briefly left the room[[/note]]. As it turns out, neither the teacher nor her father had any idea about the cheating, which is of course a lot more serious than the offense her father was initially asking her about.