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A foal, born in the aftermath of a great storm, and her famous mother help raise money to repair the storm damage on Chincoteague Island and restore the herds of wild ponies on Assateague Island.

Offers information about the breed of small horses which gets its name from the island of Chincoteague located off the coast of Maryland and Virginia.

"Madison "Maddie" Martinez loves her weekly riding lessons, and she loves working with her favorite horse, Cloudy, every time. So she is shocked when she finds out Cloudy's former owners might want to buy her back! Maddie desperately concocts various plans to stop the sale: maybe she can raise money to buy Cloudy herself, or what if she can make the potential buyers lose interest? Maddie's online Pony Post friends--Brooke Rhodes, Hayley Duncan, Nina...

"Brooke Rhodes is excited to go to sleepaway riding camp for two weeks with her Chincoteague pony, Foxy. However, camp doesn't turn out to be quite as fun as Brooke expected. The other girls all know each other already, and they don't seem interested in bringing a newbie into their group. Besides that, they're all riding tall, fancy, super well-trained show horses--not scruffy young Chincoteague ponies. Then Brooke overhears that this might be the...

When she finds some papers in her mother's dresser, Maddie suspects that her mother is being transferred again and is torn between helping her best friend and spending all her remaining time with her favorite pony.

Photographs and text follow the wild ponies of Assateague Island during their first year of life as they eat, play, and swim to the mainland where some find homes with human families.

When everything goes wrong during her performance at a New Orleans horse show, a devastated Nina wonders if her difficulties might have a supernatural source and turns for support to her Pony Post friends.