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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...
3) War horse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - 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
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cowgirl Kate and her cowhorse Cocoa, who is always hungry, count cows, share a story, and help each other fall asleep.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Moving with her father to a remote island off the coast of nineteenth-century Nova Scotia after the death of her mother, Ellie struggles with grief and loneliness in spite of a new friendship until she bonds with a wild stallion whose small herd she struggles to protect.
10) Stealing Thunder
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Libby visits her neighbor's spirited horse Thunder every day, grooming and riding him, and when Mr. Porter starts to abuse Thunder she decides to steal him away to safety, with the help of her new friend Griff.
Author
Publisher
Randon House
Pub. Date
[1953]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his wild black stallion revolts against the routine and schedule of stable life, becoming a killer and a threat, a plane crash thwarts Alec's plans to give the Black a free run in the desert and brings danger to both boy and horse.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1948]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy and his archeologist friend spend two weeks on a desolate Caribbean island where they discover a hidden valley, underground tunnels built by Spanish Conquistadors, and a wild flame-colored stallion.
16) Wonder's sister
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 11
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Samantha McLean is thrilled when Ashleigh Griffen gives her Shining the sister of the great race horse Wonder, but Shining proves difficult to train until a handicapped girl named Mandy falls in love with her.
17) Glory's triumph
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 15
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Cindy Blake feels responsible when the champion racehorse Townsend Princess is injured so she won't go anywhere near her favourite horse Glory in case she causes him to be hurt too. But without Cindy's training and love Glory will never become a racehorse.
18) Glory in danger
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 16
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Glory, Cindy Blake's champion thoroughbred, tests positive for dangerous drugs and is disqualified from the race. Cindy fears that someone wants to put an end to Glory's career and must find out who's trying to hurt Glory.
19) The wild one
Author
Series
Phantom stallion volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Two years after being thrown by her horse, Blackie, in a near-fatal accident, Sam returns to her family's ranch and meets a mustang that could be the missing Blackie, or the legendary Phantom, or both.
20) Silver spurs
Author
Series
Horses and friends volume 2
Publisher
David C Cook
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Horses and Friends is the perfect series for young girl's -- a horse lover's dream-come-true wrapped in stories of friendship, adventure, and faith led by a spunky thirteen-year-old heroine named Kate Ferris.
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