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1) Black Beauty
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Black Beauty is the "autobiography" of a horse, chronicling his life experience at the hands of his owners. Some are cruel, with no empathy, while others are kind and gentle.
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Untamed Part of the nonfiction Orca Wild series for middle-grade readers and illustrated with color photographs throughout, this book looks at the controversial past, present and future of wild horses around the world, including the ongoing threats to their existence.
Wild horses are legendary, but today their very existence is under threat from a changing environment, politics and less protected spaces to roam free.
These animals live all over...
7) Horses
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In Horses, early readers will learn all about the responsibilities of having a horse and find out how they can keep their pet healthy and happy. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they discover what it takes to be a pet owner.
A labeled diagram helps readers understand what a horse needs, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about pet horses online using our...
9) Horse
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A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 3
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When Alec Ramsey receives the Black Stallion's first son as a gift, he finds the colt has a deep distrust of all humans, and Alec must work hard to gain the fiery colt's trust.
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"Based on the true story of a police horse named Bunny and his riders, brothers Bud and Thomas Dundas, sent to the European front as part of the 9th Battery Canadian Field Artillery. This quietly but powerfully told tale explores many of the actual on-the-ground hardships WWI soldiers endured, including a gas attack, wounded and killed comrades, exploding bombs and episodes of severe hunger. By focusing on the tender relationship between Bunny and...
15) Foals
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Foals introduces emergent readers to the world of a newborn foal while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once.
Foals includes tools for teachers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents,...
16) Trail mates
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Saddle Club volume 5
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Carole is totally devoted to horses, but her father's new girlfriend is encouraging her to spend more time at the mall than at the stables.
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Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth-and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, the horse has played an integral part in human history. Combining fascinating anthropological detail and incisive personal anecdotes, Susanna Forrest draws from an immense range of archival documents as well as literature and art to illustrate how our evolution has coincided with that of horses. In paintings and poems...
18) A gift horse
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"Torn apart by the loss of her mother, young Amanda spends time at a ranch owned by a business tycoon. When his spoiled daughter rejects their new horse, Amanda proves that Misty is a true champion and restores her own happiness in the process"--www.imdb.com.
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A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 18
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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.
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