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1) War horse
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English
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"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...
2) Black Beauty
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English
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Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
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Black stallion volume 1
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English
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Young Alec Ramsay, pulled to a deserted island by the wild black stallion he has freed during a shipwreck at sea, spends his days slowly building trust with "Black" while working to keep them both alive until they can be rescued.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
12) National Velvet
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English
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A fourteen-year-old English girl wins a horse in a raffle, trains it, and rides it in the Grand National steeplechase.
13) Under heaven
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English
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Shen Tai, a general serving the Emperor of Kitai, receives 250 Sardian horses, an unthinkable gift fit to overwhelm an emperor, and travels to claim the horses in person.
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Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1988.
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with his uncle after a violent confrontation with his stepfather, sixteen-year-old Travis, an aspiring writer, finds life in a small Oklahoma town confining until he meets an eighteen-year-old horse trainer named Casey.
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Series
[Misty series] volume 1
Language
English
Description
The determination of two youngsters to win a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction.
18) Mustang canyon
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Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A young mustang is separated form his mother when a plane sweeps over the canyon.
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Black stallion volume 2
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English
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When his rightful owner repossesses the Black, eighteen-year-old Alec travels across the deserts of Arabia to find the great stallion and helps to solve a tribal feud.
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Black stallion volume 3
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English
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The Black Stallion's son arrives from Arabia and young Alec is ecstatic, but his trainer, Henry, sees a killer's instincts.
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