Stealaway / K. M. Peyton / 86 pages / Set in Scotland

David Wyatt's illustrations vividly recreate the Scottish Highlands, the setting for this intriguing ghost story in which the most prominent ghosts are horses.  Nicky and her mother have come to live at Bloodybow Castle in Scotland where her mother will train the horses of a wealthy American, Mr. Robson.  Mr. Robson has been researching the past and its bloody feuds, including the kidnapping of a prize stallion and the death of a young boy.  He hopes to recreate the fine line of horses Bloodybow Castle has been famous for in the past.  It seems as if his research has somehow reawakened ghosts of the border raiders.  They attack the stables and Nicky & Jed, and Rowan & Stealaway (ghost horses) save the day.