Canterwood Crest
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40 free Canterwood Crest trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Canterwood Crest is the tween series that swapped the usual boarding-school story for a riding academy, where places on the best teams are scarce and the friendships are as competitive as the show ring. Across 20 books Jessica Burkhart followed two heroines, Sasha Silver and then Lauren Towers, through new-girl nerves, rivalries, crushes and a great many early mornings at the barn. This quiz covers the whole run: who rides which horse, who rooms with whom, the cliques, the scandals and the expulsions, plus the story of how the first book came to be written and published. It opens with questions most readers will know and gets harder as it goes. It is for anyone who grew up with the books and wants to see how much has stuck, and for horse-mad readers meeting the academy for the first time.
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Q 01Which boy has an on-off romance with Sasha Silver and is her boyfriend when her Canterwood Crest story ends?
Jacob Schwartz
Jacob Schwartz is afraid of horses, an awkward trait at a school famous for its riders, and for a while he dates Sasha's best friend Callie instead.
Q 02Which chestnut gelding does Sasha Silver bring with her to Canterwood Crest Academy in the first book?
Charm
Charm is a Belgian and Thoroughbred cross that Sasha bought three years before changing schools. He was so green at first that he often bucked her off.
Q 03What name is given to Heather Fox's clique of popular riders, who resent Sasha Silver's arrival at Canterwood Crest?
The Trio
The Trio see the newcomer as a threat to their social status, yet their leader slowly thaws and ends up liking her.
Q 04Which firm but fair instructor heads the stables and coaches Sasha Silver at Canterwood Crest Academy?
Mr. Conner
Mr. Conner once ordered Sasha and her fiercest rival to muck out stalls together at 7am, after their feud nearly caused a collision during practice.
Q 05In City Secrets, Sasha Silver leaves Canterwood Crest for fall break and stays with Heather Fox in which city?
New York
New York was meant to be a trip with her roommate, but a huge fight right before the break left Sasha relying on her former archnemesis instead.
Q 06Which book, drafted by Jessica Burkhart at 19, opens the Canterwood Crest series with Sasha Silver's arrival?
Take the Reins
Take the Reins was sold in 2007 as the first of four books, and the series eventually grew to 20.
Q 07In the first Canterwood Crest book, which squad is Sasha Silver determined to make by the end of her first semester?
The advanced team
The advanced team has only five places for each grade, and only riders already on the intermediate team may test for them.
Q 08Lauren Towers's birthday falls on which holiday, marked at Canterwood Crest with a first-ever masquerade ball?
Halloween
Halloween is also her favorite holiday, and at the ball a special someone waits behind a mask to surprise her.
Q 09What does Sasha Silver's horse do on arrival at Canterwood Crest Academy that leaves Heather Fox on the ground?
Bolts and runs loose
He bolts and runs loose, knocking a cone into the path of his future rival, who rears and dumps the school's queen bee in the sand.
Q 10Which maker of collectible model horses has released figures of several horses from the Canterwood Crest books?
Breyer
Breyer has released models of several of the series' horses, and the author counts more than 1.6 million copies of her books in print.
Q 11Exchange student Carina Johansson, who shakes up Canterwood Crest in the book Famous, comes from which country?
Sweden
Sweden is her home country, and she arrives determined to show the whole school how its riders perform in the arena.
Q 12Canterwood Crest Academy, the elite riding school of Jessica Burkhart's books, stands in which US state?
Connecticut
Connecticut is home turf for Sasha Silver, who grew up in one of its small towns before winning her place at the school.
Q 13Which coat color does Sunstruck, the horse ridden by Alison Robb at Canterwood Crest, have?
Palomino
Palomino Sunstruck is a fiery, highly strung gelding, but his quiet rider knows just how to handle him.
Q 21Which boy bonds with Lauren Towers over horses and becomes her boyfriend at Canterwood Crest Academy?
Drew Adams
Drew Adams rides a calm-natured blood bay gelding called Polo, and he shares a place on the intermediate team with her.
Q 22Which flea-bitten gray school mare does Eric Rodriguez ride at Canterwood Crest because he owns no horse?
Luna
Luna carries him up from the intermediate group to the level above, even though he only transferred in the middle of the year.
Q 23Which small town is home to both Sasha Silver and Lauren Towers before they leave for Canterwood Crest Academy?
Union
Union has just one stable, where the same instructor trained both girls and urged each of them to apply to the academy.
Q 14Which young gray mare do Lauren Towers's parents buy for her move to Canterwood Crest Academy?
Whisper
Whisper was the one horse left to try that day, after the gelding lined up alongside her went lame.
Q 15The publisher describes Canterwood Crest as The Ashleys meets which classic horse-riding book series?
The Saddle Club
The Saddle Club was also one of the author's own favorite series growing up, part of what inspired her to write horse books herself.
Q 16Which dark chestnut Thoroughbred does Heather Fox ride as Sasha Silver's fiercest rival at Canterwood Crest?
Aristocrat
Aristocrat is described as every bit as catty and snobby as his rider, shooting other horses dirty looks whenever he gets the chance.
Q 17Which Canterwood Crest rider is expelled for running an anonymous gossip site about Sasha Silver's circle?
Julia Myer
Julia Myer started it out of jealousy after missing a place on the national youth squad, and it cost her both her friends and her school.
Q 18Jasmine King frames two Canterwood Crest riders for which offense, getting them thrown off their riding team?
Cheating on a test
Cheating on a test was the charge, a history exam to be exact, and it cost the pair their chance to try out for the national youth squad.
Q 19In Chasing Blue, what does Sasha Silver learn her Canterwood Crest archnemesis Heather Fox will be all semester?
Her riding partner
Her riding partner then starts spending a little too much time with Sasha's almost-boyfriend, which puts the pairing under real strain.
Q 20Which drama-loving roommate becomes Lauren Towers's instant best friend when she arrives at Canterwood Crest?
Khloe Kinsella
Khloe Kinsella is a self-confessed drama queen who dreams of seeing her own name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Q 24Canterwood Crest's Lauren Towers was a champion in which riding discipline before a bad fall stopped her competing?
Dressage
Dressage made her a two-time junior champion, a past she hid from her new Canterwood friends until a DVD gave it away after just one week.
Q 25Which Canterwood Crest Super Special hands the story from Sasha Silver to new narrator Lauren Towers?
Chosen
Chosen follows Lauren as she waits to hear whether the academy will accept her, after twelve books told by Sasha Silver.
Q 26In Home for Christmas, the final Canterwood Crest book, rival riders unite to help heal which animals?
Retired racehorses
Retired racehorses put Sasha Silver, Lauren Towers and all their friends and frenemies somewhere they never expected to be: on the same side.
Q 27Which major publisher signed Jessica Burkhart to a four-book deal that launched the Canterwood Crest series?
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster published the books under its Aladdin imprint, with editions later appearing in French, Spanish, Russian and Polish.
Q 28Jessica Burkhart, creator of Canterwood Crest and a former rider herself, was born in which US state?
Tennessee
Tennessee is where she was born, in the Nashville area, and as a girl she cleaned tack and mucked stalls in exchange for lessons.
Q 29In the Canterwood Crest books, the letter E in the coveted national squad YENT stands for which word?
Equestrian
Equestrian completes the Youth Equestrian National Team, a squad so coveted that the fifth book asks whether Sasha Silver can snag a spot.
Q 30In Behind the Bit, which prestigious midwinter event accepts Sasha Silver and her Canterwood Crest teammates?
A horse clinic
A horse clinic fills their midwinter break, and scouts for the national youth squad watch the demonstration that ends it.