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1) The Red Pony
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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The moving and beautiful story of a boy, a sorrel colt and the sun-drenched California earth." Junius Maltby: After ten years as a San Francisco accountant, Junius moves to sunny Pastures of Heaven, marries, has a son and becomes poverty stricken through laziness. When he realizes he is hurting his son, he has to make a decision.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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A mass-market paperback edition of The Horse and His Boy, book three in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior artwork by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to escape their harsh and narrow lives, they soon find themselves at the center of a terrible battle. It is a...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Paul and Maureen Beebe's determination to own a pony from the herd on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, is greatly increased when the elusive Phantom and her colt are among the ponies rounded up for the yearly auction.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Hank the Cowdog has one of the scariest adventures of his life when he and his cowardly companion, Drover, find themselves in a strange and spooky place on Halloween night.
5) Black Beauty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that...
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...
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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.
9) 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.
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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.
12) Firehorse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby is determined to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
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Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Percé Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. Includes historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
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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.
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Series
American girls collection. Kaya, 1764 volume 6
American girls collection. Kaya 1764 volume 6
American Girl Kaya volume 6
American girls collection. Kaya 1764 volume 6
American Girl Kaya volume 6
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While looking for Steps High, the horse that had been stolen from her, Kaya faces danger from a sudden grassland fire. Includes historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
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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
Publisher
[Stu Campbell]
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
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"The colt was a gruella, a mouse-colored dun. He had a black stripe down his back, like most buckskins. He had white socks on each leg and the socks on his hind feet went almost up to his flanks. The socks on his front feet went to his knees. He had a wide blaze on the front of his face that went from between his ears down to his nose. His mane and tail were black. He also had some black stripes around his front legs above the socks. He made an impressive...
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Alec Ramsay has a hard time persuading his partners to retain the girl he hires as a trainer and an even harder time convincing them to let her race the Black Stallion when Alec is suspended as a jockey.
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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.
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Animal ark volume 27
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mandy tries to show Tania Benster that her miniature horse deserves to be well treated.