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Author
Series
Billy and Blaze books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Billy and his loyal pony Blaze attempt to tame the wild horse Thunderbolt.
Author
Series
Billy and Blaze books volume 10
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The story of an eleven year old boy whose one intense desire is that he have a colt of his own. The whole action of the story takes place against the pattern of a ranch devoted to raising blooded horses, out in Wyoming. At last his wish is granted, and he chooses his yearling, against all advice. The story is centered on the process of winning 'Flicka' and of proving the rightness of his choice.
Author
Series
Fairy animals of Misty Wood volume 6
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c.2014
Language
English
Description
"Poppy the Pony is very shy. She loves soaring through Misty Wood, but she's too scared to talk to any of the other fairy animals. One day a thunderstorm comes, and Poppy discovers she is braver than she ever knew. Includes activities"-- Provided by publisher. "A special story for Christmas introducing Hailey the Hedgerow Hedgehog, the newest addition to the Fairy Animals of Misty Wood"-- Provided by publisher.
10) The Red Pony
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
SCHOLASTIC
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Wendy's little sister is good at everything-especially being annoying Katie is always good at whatever she tries and everyone adores her. Everyone except Wendy, that is. Just once, ten-year-old Wendy wishes she could outshine her little sister. When she gets a chance to take horseback riding lessons, she plans to prove to her family that she is the best at something. But it's not long before Katie decides to steal Wendy's thunder by taking riding...
14) 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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
teenager Velvet seems like any other girl who's horse-crazy. but who else would dare chop off her hair, don jockey's clothes, and enter the world's toughest steeplechase? Here's the story that made Elizabeth Tayor a teenage screen star...a story you'll laugh over, cry over, and never forget.
16) Hero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After years of abuse from his mother and neglect from his father, ninth-grader Sean Parker is headed for trouble until he is sent to do community service at a farm owned by an old man who teaches Sean that he can take control of his own life.
17) The horsecatcher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior.
Author
Series
Horse crazy (Alison Lester) volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a rural Australian town, best friends Bonnie and Sam, who share a mutual love of horses, watch in amazement as a farm horse and a wild horse, identical in appearance, trade places.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Macmillan Publishing Company
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jenny loses most of her friends and suffers the verbal abuse of classmates when she befriends a black girl who has moved with her family into Jenny's duplex and shares her interest in horses.