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1) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
This odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.
Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others,...
Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others,...
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Alec receives the Black Stallion’s first son as a gift, he believes his dreams have come true, but Satan’s savage arrogance makes him dangerous and unpredictable. Still, Alec is resolved to gain the fiery colt’s trust, even if he must risk his life to do it.
4) Horseplay!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A farmer tries to change the behavior of his rowdy horses who play all night and sleep all day.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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.
6) Unhappy Appy
Author
Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 5
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
7) Gift horse
Author
Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 6
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents a cowboy odyssey for modern times, and features the travels and toils of a 16 year old East Texan boy. The first volume of the author's Border trilogy.
Author
Series
Otis the tractor volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On Christmas Eve at the farm, a horse faces complications while delivering her foal and Otis the tractor must race through snowy, treacherous woods to bring back Doc Baker before it is too late.
11) Yatimah
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a mid-ninth-century Bedouin camp in the Arabian Desert, a horse is born to a prized Arabian war mare who dies during the birth, and the foal is raised with dreams of continuing her mother's glory as a war mare. Includes facts about Arabian horses and their importance to Bedouin tribes.
12) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Travel to Ancient Greece with Jack and Annie as they meet Alexander the Great and help tame his wild stallion"--
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 77
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While visiting the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Aldens see a mysterious wild horse that may be a ghost.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Two's closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning Black family. Neither Two nor Hank fit easily into the highly segregated society of 1920s Nashville. When disaster strikes during one of Two's shows, strange things start...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world. Coronado is Maggie's horse. An absolutely top-tier Belgian warmblood. Sky is Becky's horse. A small, speedy Dutch warmblood. Only James Patterson could bring you such breakneck speed,...
17) War horse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
18) Hugger mugger
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 27
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
19) National Velvet
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
20) Summer nights
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Horse whisperer Shane Stryker, who is looking for a sensible woman who will be content with the quiet life of a rancher's wife, sets his sights on small-town librarian Annabelle Weiss, who has a wild side that tests his resolve.
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