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Wonder's Victory

Joanna Campbell · 192 pages

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A Pony for Keeps

Jeanne Betancourt · 90 pages

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Sooner or Later

Lauren Brooke · 150 pages

As Amy becomes more committed to showjumping, she has less time to care for the horses at Heartland. Amy must deal with real issues: What will she choose as her priorities? Who does she want to be? Amy's dreams have come true. She is still caring for damaged horses like her mom, and now she's showing in high-level jumping competitions like her dad. It's all possible because of Storm, the talent

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Bell's Star

Alison Hart

Vermont, 1850sBell's Star is a brown Morgan colt with a white star and two white stockings. He was bred for hard work, yet he longs to run free with his human friend, Katie, on his back. But when Star helps rescue a runaway slave girl, his ideas about freedom may change forever. Here is Star's story . . . in his own words. With exciting and knowledgeable text and lovely black-and-white art through

HorsesRural FarmMiddle GradeSeries
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Paint the Wind

Pam Munoz Ryan · 327 pages

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

HorsesRural FarmMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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A Good Horse

Jane Smiley

On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt tries to rely on her Christian faith as she faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack.

HorsesRural FarmMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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Saige

Jessie Haas

Ten-year-old Saige Copeland loves spending time on her grandma Mimi's ranch, riding horses and painting. Her school made the tough choice to cut art classes, which means she's lost her favorite subject. So when Mimi decides to organize a "save the arts" fundraiser and parade to benefit the school, Saige jumps on board. She begins training Mimi's beautiful horse, Picasso, for his appearance in the

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Misty of Chincoteague

Marguerite Henry · 176 pages

Nobody could capture the Phantom. She was the wildest mare on Assateague Island. They said she was like the wind, that the white "map" on her shoulders was her mark of freedom. Paul and Maureen Beebe had their hearts set on owning her. They were itching to buy and tame her, and worked hard to earn the money she would cost. But the roundup men had tried to capture her and for two years she had esca

HorsesMiddle GradeRural FarmSeries
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Farm Boy

Michael Morpurgo · 111 pages

For years, Joey was a war horse, pulling ambulance carts and artillery through the battlefields of World War I. Finally, he returned to Albert and the farm. Now, decades later, Albert's son loves to tell his own grandson stories about the remarkable horse, including its feats in the war and of the time the family risked everything betting that Joey could win a daring race.

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My friend Flicka

Mary O'Hara · 318 pages

HorsesMiddle GradeRural FarmSeries
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Horse Power

Bonnie Bryant · 136 pages

The three members of the Saddle Club prepare for a gymkhana and try to persuade Kate, a championship rider who no longer rides, to join their team.

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Wild Thing

Dandi Daley Mackall · 171 pages

After settling in Ashland, Ohio, Winnie Willis discovers a beautiful but mistreated Arabian mare who is known as Salvaje because nobody has been able to train her, and trusts in her Christian faith to find a way to help.

HorsesMiddle GradeFemale LeadSeries
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Outfoxed

Rita Mae Brown · 409 pages

From the bestselling author of the landmark work Rubyfruit Jungle comes an engaging, original new novel that only Rita Mae Brown could have written. In the pristine world of Virginia foxhunting, hunters, horses, hounds, and foxes form a lively community of conflicting loyalties, where the thrill of the chase and the intricacies of human-animal relationships are experienced firsthand--and murder ex

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Blaze and the Dark Rider

Stacy Gregg

The second adventure in this fresh, fun and accessible new series – perfect for all pony-loving girls out there.Issie and her friends have been picked to represent the Chevalier Point Pony Club at the Interclub Gold Shield – the biggest competition of the year. It's time to get training!But when equipment is sabotaged and one of the riders is injured, Issie and her friends are determined to find o

HorsesMiddle GradeFemale LeadSeries
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For Love of a Horse

Patricia Leitch · 126 pages

A young English girl moves with her family to the Scottish Highlands, and becomes obsessed with rescuing an Arab mare named Shantih that escaped from an abusive circus.

HorsesMiddle GradeFemale LeadSeries
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The Good Master

Kate Seredy · 196 pages

"'My cousin Kate from Budapest is coming to live with us. She's delicate and has had the measles!' shouted Jancsi to a friend as he and his father were driving to the station to meet her. Jancsi had imagined Kate as a sort of fragile, fair-haired princess, but the little girl who stepped off the train had plain black hair, a smudgy face, and skinny legs. From the moment Kate arrived, things hap

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Take Me Home

Nancy Herkness · 319 pages

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The Black Stallion and the Girl

Walter Farley · 196 pages

Alec Ramsay has a hard time persuading his partners to retain the girl he hires as a trainer and an even harder time convincing them to let her race the Black Stalion when Alec is suspended as a jockey.

HorsesMiddle GradeFemale LeadSeries
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Irish Hearts

Nora Roberts · 506 pages

Irish Thoroughbred It was a dream come true for Irish lass Adelia Cunnane--to work with her uncle, a horse trainer at Royal Meadows, one of the most renowned stables in the world. But there was a catch, and his name was Travis Grant. He was the stable's owner, and a man as proud, as passionate, as opinionated as…herself. Irish Rose When Adelia's feisty cousin Erin McKinnon first meets B

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The Red Pony

John Steinbeck · 120 pages

Tells story of a young boy and his life on his father's ranch. Ownership of a red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and death.

HorsesRural FarmMiddle Grade
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Elite Ambition

Jessica Burkhart · 211 pages

When Sasha Silver becomes the most popular girl at Canterwood Crest Academy, she must figure out a way to deal with her old friends Paige and Callie and the boy she has a crush on.

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Chosen by a Horse

Susan Richards · 248 pages

**How a broken horse fixed a broken heart.** The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn't be corralled into her waiting trailer. But Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels, walked right up that ramp and into Susan's life. Weak from malnutrition, Lay Me Down had endured a rough road, but somehow her heart was still open and generous. Then fate brought her into Susan

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Mackenzie's Magic

Linda Howard

The final chapter of Linda Howard's beloved Mackenzie family saga! Meet Maris Mackenzie -- and the sexy stranger she woke up to find in her bed! Unfortunately, she had no memory of Alex MacNeil, the previous day... or the prize Thoroughbred she'd apparently stolen...

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The Hearts of Horses

Molly Gloss · 304 pages

In the winter of 1917, with many of his regular hands off fighting in World War I, George Bliss hires young Martha Lessen to help gentle wild horses, and as she demonstrates her unique talent for dealing with damaged horses, she finds a sense of family and belonging.

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