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1) Black Beauty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England encounters many misfortunes until he finds the happiness and contentment he deserves.
3) Wild horses
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive look at wild horses, including North American mustangs, Australian brumbies, and Icelandic ponies, exploring the history of horses, their behavior, reproduction, and threats from humans.
5) War horse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the work performed by the founders of Project Seahorse, along with Filipino colleagues and fishers, to protect seahorses and the coral reefs where they live while also helping the local fishing families.
8) Morgans
Author
Series
Publisher
G. Stevens
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical features and other characteristics of the first original American horse breed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, eleven-year-old 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 Artemisia, a wild mare that her mother once rode.
10) Quarter horses
Author
Series
Publisher
G. Stevens
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical features and other characteristics that have made the quarter horse one of the most popular breeds in America.
11) Appaloosas
Author
Series
Publisher
G. Stevens
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the history and characteristics that distinguish these horses from other breeds.
13) Yatimah
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a mid-ninth-century Bedouin camp in the Arabian Desert, a horse is born to a prized Arabian war mare who dies during the birth, and the foal is raised with dreams of continuing her mother's glory as a war mare. Includes facts about Arabian horses and their importance to Bedouin tribes.
14) Horses & ponies
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Introduces the reader to many aspects of horses and ponies, including care and feeding, exercising them, and helpful hints about breeds and riding.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains how to keep horses and ponies healthy and happy, discussing diet, grooming, illness, injury, and the proper use of the saddle, bridle, and other gear used while riding.
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An introduction to Arabians and Other Horses, presented in a highly illustrated, question and answer format. Features include fun facts, glossary, resource list, index, and scientific classification list"--Provided by publisher.
18) Horse tales
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of fourteen stories which draw upon tales from ancient Greece, fourteenth-century Mongolia, France in the Middle Ages, and selections from Russia and Native America.
19) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
20) Black Beauty
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel featuring Black Beauty, who grows up in the fields and meadows of Victorian England and is then thrust into a world of cruelty and mistreatment.
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