Millie and Stella are the very best of friends and do everything together at school and after school with their ponies. They are both keen readers too and are vying for the librarian job at the new caravan library at their school. The caravan looks amazing, painted like a ladybird, and the inside is all set up with lots of shelving ready for books.

Lots of others in school want to be librarians too, so the competition is tough. Their biggest competition is a student called Gwyneth. She always arrives in a big black fancy car with her mother, and usually wins everything. Some kids don’t even bother competing if Gwyneth is in the running. Millie and Stella will have to apply like everyone else and wait and see.

Another thing on their minds is a lack of feed for their horses. There might be a solution but it worries Millie more than her friend. Stella is confident and kind and the best friend ever, especially when Millie is feeling overwhelmed or sad, but Millie needs her pony to help with her feelings too.

There are other ways that help with being neurodivergent, and Millie relies on them all. The pony feed solution however, only brings more problems. Millie must rely on all her riding skills and find her own confidence with a bully to solve a mystery once and for all.

The first in a series about friendship, Millie and Stella – Best Friends Forever is a lovely story about two girls. Stella is confident and brave, and Millie is neurodivergent and successfully uses tools she has learnt and resources around her, to build her own self-confidence.

This episode deals with a wealthy student, used to getting their own way and behaving badly. But it’s Millie who soothes through the problems that arise throughout the story.

With medium font and pictures throughout, this will be a sweet series to follow, for mystery fans, horse lovers and readers aged from 7 years old. 

Author – Josephine Moon

Illustrator – Jedda Robaard

Age – 7+

(2025, Penguin Random House Australia, Friendship, Horses, Ponies, School, Librarians, Neurodivergent, Understanding, Animals, Mystery)