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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
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
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
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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.
5) Wild horses
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tells the story of Snowman, a horse 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.
7) Wild horses
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A tribute, in text and photographs, to a real-life herd of wild horses running free in Arizona"--
11) Miniature horses
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Saddle up, and get ready to learn about some of the most popular horse breeds. From race-ready Thoroughbreds to spotted Appaloosas, its time to get horse crazy.
14) Horses & ponies
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents facts about horses, examining their eating habits, breeds, anatomy, and care.
17) Billy and Blaze
Author
Series
Billy and Blaze books volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little boy who loves horses gets a special birthday present.
20) Cinders
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 13
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Cinders is a dappled gray Percheron horse during the 1871 Great Chicago Fire"--
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