Book excerpt: Ichabod Crane is a quiet young boy at the Sleepy Hollow Academy in the countryside of New York State. After finding a mysterious lost horse in the woods, while under the pursuit of the merciless school bully Brom Bones and her Sleepy Hollow Boys gang, and returning it to the stables he now finds himself under the protection and affections of the legendary Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.