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Author
Series
Black stallion volume 1
Publication Date
1941
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When the steamer Drake is shipwrecked off the Spanish coast, there are only two survivors. One is young Alec Ramsay. The other is the Black Stallion - wildest of all wild creatures - who saves Alec's life. Stranded on a desert island, boy and stallion develop a deep and special bond."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Publication Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Saddle up for this first volume in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from DiCamillo's "New York Times"--Bestselling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, and then it's love at first sight.
Author
Publication Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"The Eighty-Dollar Champion tells the dramatic odyssey of a horse called Snowman, saved from the slaughterhouse by a young Dutch farmer named Harry. Together, Harry and Snowman went on to become America's show-jumping champions, winning first prize in Madison Square Garden. Set in the mid to late 1950s, this book captures the can-do spirit of a Cold War immigrant who believed--and triumphed"--
4) Horse
Author
Publication Date
2022
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...
5) War horse
Author
Series
Publication Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo has adapted his much-loved novel, War Horse, for a picture book audience. This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse and is a gateway to help children understand the history and deadly chaos of the First World War. As we move beyond centenary commemorations and continue to strive for peace across the world, War Horse remains an important book for...
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 5
Publication Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
When Cocoa decides to explore the house, Cowgirl Kate has a hard time convincing him he must return to the barn.
Author
Publication Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success...
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success...
11) King of the wind
Author
Publication Date
1948
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Traces the abuses and triumphs of the Arabian stallion who became a founding sire of the Thoroughbred breed, and of the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco to France to England where, at last, Sham's majesty is recognized and he becomes the "Godolphin Arabian" ancestor of the most superior Thoroughbred horses.
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 1
Publication Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Cowgirl Kate and her cowhorse Cocoa, who is always hungry, count cows, share a story, and help each other fall asleep.
13) My friend Flicka
Author
Publication Date
1941
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The story of an eleven year old boy whose one intense desire is that he have a colt of his own. The whole action of the story takes place against the pattern of a ranch devoted to raising blooded horses, out in Wyoming. At last his wish is granted, and he chooses his yearling, against all advice. The story is centered on the process of winning 'Flicka' and of proving the rightness of his choice.
Author
Publication Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A girl on a horse is involved in a car accident, loses a leg and the horse goes mad. As she won't allow him to be destroyed, her mother, a New York magazine editor, quits job and husband and takes horse and daughter to a rancher in Montana, said to cure horses by talking to them. Despite cultural differences--she is British--love blooms between editor and rancher.
Author
Publication Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Author
Series
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1917, with many of his regular hands off fighting in World War I, George Bliss hires young Martha Lessen, a female horse whisperer, to help gentle wild horses, and as she demonstrates her unique talent for dealing with damaged horses, gentles a horse for a dying man's son, and clashes with an abusive hired hand, she finds a sense of family and belonging.
20) Promise Canyon
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 13
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Clay Tahoma, Virgin River's new veterinary assistant, is welcomed by everyone in town except Lilly Yazhi, who believes that his down-to-earth attitude and rugged sex appeal is an act to charm wealthy women like his ex-wife.