Plot
The story lines are set over a four-year period showing Sophie as she grows older. Over the six books she acquires various pets, including a Cat (Tomboy), Rabbit (Beano) and Dog (Puddle) and last a Pony (Lucky), she starts school and goes on family holidays and has riding lessons. She is constantly supported throughout the books on her ambition to become a 'Lady Farmer' by her family, and save up 'farm money', so that, as she one day hopes, can purchase a farm. During Sophie's Lucky, the last book, after her great great Aunt Alice dies, she gets a farm in the Scottish Highlands as her eventual inheritance from her.
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