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1) Black beauty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A jet-black young colt, Black Beauty, spends his early years in a cozy meadow growing up with a gentle master, a strong mother and an ideal upbringing. Through the years, he changes hands with different masters some rough, some kind, some indifferent. Black Beauty's experiences throughout his life give him lessons on real friendship, loss, hardship and human nature. Gallop with Black Beauty as he grows into a worn yet mature and handsome, dutiful...
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Pulled to a desert island by a wild black stallion he has freed during a shipwreck at sea, then rescued by a southbound freighter, a seventeen-year-old boy befriends the horse, trains him by night, and rides him to victory in a match race.
8) Little Horse
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Horse falls into the stream and is swept away into a dangerous adventure and a new life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willy Vlautin's award-winning novel follows the story of a newly orphaned fifteen-year old-boy struggling to make his way to a long lost aunt, who just might give him a home-now a major motion picture starring Chloë Sevigny (American Horror Story), Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) and Travis Fimmel (Warcraft) and directed by Andrew Haigh (45 Years, Looking). Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home, food on the table, and a high school he can...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries"--
11) The Trickster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When he and the other volunteers at Dr. Mac's veterinary clinic go to help out at Quinn's Stables, David makes several serious mistakes and must prove he can be trusted before Mr. Quinn will let him even be around the spirited horse that David wants to ride.
12) Stormy
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Becky and Hannah are rival riders, but can Stormy help them become friends?
13) Horse
Author
Language
English
Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tricia Evanston and her father share something very special: their love of horses. With Tricia as jockey and her father as trainer, the two have big dreams of winning the Triple Crown. Tricia has other pressures, too, like declining grades, a strained relationship with her mother, and the constant worry about her father's failing health. But Tricia's faith in God always gives her the strength to push her limits.--Publisher.
15) Amish horses
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An Amish boy cares for the horses that work on his family's farm.
16) Roasted peanuts
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sam the horse gets picked to be on the local baseball team, but unfortunately his friend Jackson the cat, despite being a good thrower, is not selected.
17) Dash
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jenny wants to try barrel racing and spends time training with her quarter horse, Dash, but she is apprenhensive as the day for her first race at the rodeo approaches.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Molly and her sister hope that their horse Scamper's costume will win a blue ribbon in the horse show, but some unexpected rainfall changes the situation. Includes information on horse shows.
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Cocoa decides to explore the house, Cowgirl Kate has a hard time convincing him he must return to the barn.
20) Fear of falling
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old David has conflicting feelings when his father, who taught him to ride the horses he loves so much, returns to spend Thanksgiving Day with the family after being gone for a year.
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