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1) 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...
2) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Forging an instant bond with spaghetti-loving horse Maybelline, horseless cowboy Leroy Ninker inadverently risks eternal loneliness when he forgets a vital rule about Maybelline's care.
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cocoa the horse does not want Cowgirl Kate to go to school without him.
8) War horse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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.
9) Switchback
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
With warm sand between his toes, private investigator Rocky Revada is finally taking a well-deserved vacation. But the emotional pleas of a pretty woman have somehow lodged inside the usually practical investigator's head. As he mulls it over, probing the theft of an expensive roping horse seems much more interesting than the mundane pleasures of sun, surf, and dinners alone. However, when Rocky arrives at Glenn Gridley's northern Utah ranch, he...
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Cowgirl Kate and her cowhorse Cocoa, who is always hungry, count cows, share a story, and help each other fall asleep.
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
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cocoa decides to explore the house, Cowgirl Kate has a hard time convincing him he must return to the barn.
15) Pony crazy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After moving to the country and discovering that her new friend Jill raises ponies on her farm, horse-lover Meg is thrilled and cannot wait to lend Jill a hand in tending to the animals she loves most.
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt Childrens Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cocoa the horse herds the cows with Cowgirl Kate, helps her practice her roping skills, and wishes he could wear boots instead of horseshoes.
18) Starfire
Author
Series
Guardian Herd volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Star is prophesized to become the most powerful winged horse in Anok on his first birthday, but he must first overcome his malformed wings that make him unable to fly and threats from the leaders of the five herds"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Travel to Ancient Greece with Jack and Annie as they meet Alexander the Great and help tame his wild stallion"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This breakout novel from the author of The Jump-Off Creek tells the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for "gentling" wild horses. In the winter of 1917, a big-boned young woman shows up at George Bliss's doorstep. She's looking for a job breaking horses, and he hires her on. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war, and he glimpses, beneath her showy rodeo garb, a shy but strong-willed girl with a serious knowledge...
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