He loses saddle blankets and breaks reins...but then comes the worst news yet: a report card so bad that he has to repeat a grade. How can you tame the dreamy mind of a boy who stares out of the window instead of taking an exam? Enter Flicka, the chestnut filly with a wild spirit. Over the course of one magical summer, both will learn the meaning of responsibility, courage, and, ultimately, friendship.

    Lambert's first book, Star Spangled Summer, introduces the warm hearted Parrish family and their "poor-little-rich-girl" friend, Carrol Houghton, whose life is transformed when she meets Penny Parrish.

    The list of his adventure novels is a record of consistently growing popularity. The hallmark of every Meader book is narrative power coupled with absolute authenticity of character and setting. To his already distinguished register of achievements we add Blueberry Mountain. Buck Evans and his friend, Joe Sullivan, were farm boys living in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Every summer they earned money by picking and selling the blueberries growing wild on the Pocono barrens. They they discovered that bigger ones were grown commercially and sold at far higher prices, and they determined to have their own blueberry farm. Their venture brought them hard work and plenty of obstacles, including thieving mountaineers, a roaring spring flood, and an attempted murder. They had fun, too, and the best of it came from the success of their self-reliant efforts to earn a living.

    Ann Redfern had ideas -- many of her friends had talent, unused, apparently unwanted talent. With Ann as their leader, and with the reluctant aid of Mr. Kildare, owner of the Poplar City Star, the young people pooled their abilities and instituted a personal service organization. They had to work well and work fast, for Mr. Kildare gave them but a month to prove the success of their venture.On a cooperative basis they ran a day nursery, washed windows, walked dogs; in fact, they under-took any job offered them -- and there were some very strange jobs. The group faced some strenuous opposition, and they had difficulties among themselves, but eventually they established the House of Tomorrow.