Walter Farley
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Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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.
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Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In order to raise money to rebuild a one-hundred-thousand-dollar barn, destroyed by fire, Alec returns to racing the Black.
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Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When he finds poison in the Black's stable, Alec suspects someone is trying to kill his beloved stallion. But just as he's puzzling over the clues, something even more disturbing happens. An Arab chieftain shows up and reclaims the Black.
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 is a dangerous and unpredictable horse.
8) Man o' War
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the American race horse who won twenty of twenty-one races, told by a stable boy who grew up with the great horse.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Pitch and Steve's secret island valley is discovered and invaded by a hard and vicious man, who is a threat to the island stallion and his band.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Henry Dailey buys a spoiled, contrary two-year-old filly, a daughter of the Black, in November, and is determined to have a Kentucky Derby candidate by May.
11) The Horse-tamer
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Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A late-eighteenth-century carriage maker turns professional horse-tamer, and deals with many vicious or badly trained horses, and one unscrupulous showman.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 9
Publisher
Randon House
Pub. Date
[1953]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.
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Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A plane wreck at sea separates Alec and the Black until the search for a rabid vampire bat leads the boy to Flame's island sanctuary.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A boy is entrusted to attend the birth, train, and drive a blood bay colt that is the great hope of an aging reinsman who refuses to be reconciled to the fact that sulky-racing has moved from the county fair to the big night time, moneymaking raceways.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 17
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Alec Ramsay's life is changed after he spends a terrifying night lost in the Florida Everglades with a deranged Frenchman who is helping him search for the runaway black stallion.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When the Black is returned to Alec Ramsey, the whole racing world, including Alec himself, wonders which horse is faster: the great stallion or his son, Satan.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A racing accident resulting in a frightened horse and an injured driver leads Alec Ramsey and Henry Dailey to try harness racing, working a son of the Black toward the Hambletonian.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Two visitors from another world enter the secret valley of Azul Island and provide Steve with a chance to see how Flame can do in competition with the world's fastest horses.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English