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1) Black beauty
Author
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
Author
Series
Billy and Blaze books volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A little boy who loves horses gets a special birthday present.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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.
4) 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...
6) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lily Casey Smith grows up breaking horses with her father and leaves home at fifteen to ride five hundred miles in order to teach in a frontier town before encountering various difficulties, marrying a rancher, and speaking out against prejudice in various parts of the U.S.
9) Tony
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Follow this touching tale of a boy and his friendship with a horse, by the late poet Ed Galing and illustrated with remarkable tenderness by Caldecott-winning artist Erin Stead"--Provided by publisher.
11) Yatimah
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
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.
13) Hugger mugger
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spenser is back and embroiled in a dangerous and multi-layered case. Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, hires him to find out who. Spenser goes to Georgia to protect Hugger Mugger, a two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement, he takes the case. Despite the veneer of civility, Spenser encounters...
14) Cowardly Clyde
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
For a war horse, Clyde is an abysmal coward, but he finally decides that even if he isn't brave he can at least act brave.
15) Mister Seahorse
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
After Mrs. Seahorse lays her eggs on Mr. Seahorse's belly, he drifts through the water, greeting other fish fathers who are taking care of their eggs.
16) No foal yet
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Nora and her grandparents wait for their horse Bonnie to have her foal.
17) Black Cloud
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite the dangers, Black Cloud enjoys his life as a wild mustang colt in 1951 Nevada but when humans round up and slaughter his herd, he is rescued by a talkative girl named Annie who gives him a safe and comfortable life, lacking nothing but freedom.
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 6
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Cowgirl Kate and her horse Cocoa watch over the new calves, a puppy, and some baby barn owls.
19) Mrs. Mack
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.
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