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1) Black Beauty
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Language
English
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"When Black Beauty was born one sweet spring day, he could not have imagined the life ahead of him. Following his mother's advice to do his work with a good will, he enjoys the adventures of country and city life, makes new friends, and suffers from the cruelty and greed of his human masters. Beauty faces each challenge with bravery and kindness -- and then a chance encounter with an old friend brings him the greatest joy of all. Anna Sewell's classic...
2) Horse
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English
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"Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.
New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson,...
3) Sugaring
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English
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Nora wants to find a way to give the horses a special treat for helping her grandfather and her gather sap to make maple syrup.
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 1
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.
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Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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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.
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Fountas & Pinnell
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English
Description
Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse -- until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good?
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 21
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English
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"Travel to Ancient Greece with Jack and Annie as they meet Alexander the Great and help tame his wild stallion"--
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English
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Black Beauty is among the most enduring works of children's literature. First published in 1877, the book alerted adults to the widespread abuse of horses, and provoked immediate positive changes. Yet Black Beauty's appeal is literal as well as political: for young readers it offers a magical perspective---a story told from a horse's point of view.
Beauty has an idyllic and heroic youth. His master and coachman treat him gently, and the horse responds...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world.
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Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 18
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
84 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the disappearance of a valuable racehorse that Dink's uncle and his friend, Forest Evans, have just bought and entered in a race at Saratoga.
16) War horse
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English
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World War I has started and the military needs horses to move equipment, charge the enemy, and carry wounded soldiers off the battlefield. Joey, a farm horse is sold to the Army. Joey misses the farmer's son, Albert, and spends the war years wondering if the war will ever end and if he will ever see Albert again.
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
19) John and Tom
Author
Series
Publisher
Vermont Folklife Center
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
When John has an accident while cutting logs in the Vermont woods, Tom, the Morgan horse who is his work partner and friend, uses intelligence and strength to rescue him.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins--to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to The Horse Whisperer. He is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heals broken spirits. For secrets uttered softly into pricked...
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