History Literature / TheSaddleClub

* 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.