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1) Black beauty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A jet-black young colt, Black Beauty, spends his early years in a cozy meadow growing up with a gentle master, a strong mother and an ideal upbringing. Through the years, he changes hands with different masters some rough, some kind, some indifferent. Black Beauty's experiences throughout his life give him lessons on real friendship, loss, hardship and human nature. Gallop with Black Beauty as he grows into a worn yet mature and handsome, dutiful...
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books/Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers/Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Katie continues the journey west to Oregon hoping to be reunited with her uncle and returning the Mustang closer to his homeland.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 19
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The black stallion helps save an Indian tribe during a time of disaster, thereby fulfilling an ancient prophecy.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her father after Black Tuesday, thirteen-year-old Bea convinces Mrs. Scott to take in her and her sister in exchange for farm work and Bea bonds with a seemingly untrainable horse.
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Willowisp Press
Pub. Date
[1981, 1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! It's Mandy's thirteenth birthday and her dream is coming true: She's getting a beautiful horse of her very own! But Mandy's best friend, Laura, doesn't seem very happy for her. Then tragedy strikes. Can Mandy and her new horse save Laura?
12) War horse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo has adapted his much-loved novel, War Horse, for a picture book audience. This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse and is a gateway to help children understand the history and deadly chaos of the First World War. As we move beyond centenary commemorations and continue to strive for peace across the world, War Horse remains an important book for...
13) Misty's twilight
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Captivated by the story of "Misty of Chincoteague," a woman with a horse farm in Florida raises one of Misty's descendants to become a champion show horse.
14) My friend Flicka
Author
Series
Flicka trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through his intense devotion to the colt Flicka, a young boy, living on a Wyoming ranch, begins to learn about responsibility and gain a better understanding of his brusque father.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Alec and his horse go overseas to search for the Black's sire.
16) Wild thing
Author
Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. She can gentle the wildest mare, but other parts of her life don't always come as easily. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom, who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches her horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted too. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky...
17) Dark horse
Author
Series
Starlight Animal Rescue volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Starlight tosses her head, and I know instantly by the tightening I feel in her back that something's wrong. . . . Nothing unusual I can make out. . . . Then I smell it. Smoke.Meet 18-year-old Hank. He's Catman's cousin and the all-American, popular, good guy at Starlight Animal Rescue. But a tragic fire has Hank questioning everything-including his ability to rescue anything, even himself. With a burned, wild horse and a lost cat at stake, Winnie...
18) Highway robbery
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
On a cold day in eightheenth-century England, a poor young boy agrees to watch a stranger's fine horse for a golden guinea but soon finds himself in a difficult situation when the king's guard appears and wants to use him as bait in their pursuit of a notorious highwayman.
19) A horse to love
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 1
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Skye, a troubled foster child, comes to live at Keystone Stables, a Christian home where she discovers her love for horses.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home.
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