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2) Horse
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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 artist who has made his name painting 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, a gallery...
4) Born to trot
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As he learns about the famous Hambletonian, sire of the American trotter, young Gib White dreams of some day having his own filly become a champion trotter.
5) Black Beauty
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
6) Unhappy Appy
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Winnie the horse gentler volume 5
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Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. 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 as well. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities fill Winnie's life with friendship and adventure.In Unhappy Appy, Winnie...
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Horse crazy (Alison Lester) volume 1
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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.
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"Three orphans journey westward from New York City to...Montana, hoping for a better life where beautiful wild horses roam free. Fate guides them toward the ranch of a family stricken by loss. Nara, the daughter of a successful cattleman, has grown into abrusque spinster who refuses the kids on sight...[but] when Charles is jailed for freeing wild horses that were rounded up for slaughter, and an abusive mother from New York shows up to take the youngest,...
11) Black Beauty
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
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88 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky-his first home is a good one where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse.
12) Paint the wind
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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.
14) Mister Seahorse
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2004
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
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After Mrs. Seahorse lays her eggs on Mr. Seahorse's belly, he drifts through the water, greeting other fish fathers who are taking care of their eggs.
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Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 2
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
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[43] p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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Cocoa the horse herds the cows with Cowgirl Kate, helps her practice her roping skills, and wishes he could wear boots instead of horseshoes.
17) No foal yet
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Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1995
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.
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Nora and her grandparents wait for their horse Bonnie to have her foal.
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Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
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135 p. ; 21 cm.
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Orphaned at age six and taken in by a heartless couple, nine-year-old Katie Rose spends her days doing chores and dreaming of going west to find her Uncle Jack. Then Mr. Stevens brings home an unbroken Mustang, and Katie's world changes. Katie is drawn to the horse's wildness, and he seems to sense her need for companionship. So when Katie learns that the Stevenses plan to join the expansion West, without her or the Mustang, she makes a desperate...
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Bramble and Maggie volume 2
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
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52 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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Feeling bored when her human companion attends school, Bramble the horse gets into mischief involving Mr. Dingle next door until a misbehaving hen and a midnight visitor help turn Bramble into a good neighbor.
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