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Out of the Darkness

Lauren Brooke · 153 pages

HorsesRural FarmTeen ProtagonistMiddle Grade
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Flambards

K.M. Peyton · 224 pages

Twelve-year-old Christina Parsons is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons, Mark and Will, in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina discovers a passion for horses and riding but finds herself part of a strange household, divided by emotional undercurrents and cruelty. 1st book in the Flambards series.

HorsesRural FarmTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Mustang Moon

Terri Farley · 234 pages

HorsesRural FarmTeen ProtagonistMiddle Grade
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Catch Rider

Jennifer H. Lyne · 288 pages

Despite her poor background and ferocious competition from more privileged girls, fourteen-year-old Sid pursues her dream of becoming a catch rider--a show rider who can ride anything--with help from her Uncle Wayne.

HorsesRural FarmTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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My friend Flicka

Mary O'Hara · 318 pages

HorsesRural FarmTeen ProtagonistMiddle Grade
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The God of Animals

Aryn Kyle · 320 pages

HorsesRural FarmTeen ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
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Tom's Crossing

Mark Z. Danielewski · 1,232 pages

HorsesRural FarmTeen ProtagonistHistorical Fiction
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The One Dollar Horse

Lauren St. John

HorsesTeen ProtagonistMiddle GradeYoung Adult
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Jacqueline Kelly · 340 pages

Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones.With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger. As Callie explores

Rural FarmTeen ProtagonistMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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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.

HorsesTeen ProtagonistFirst Person NarratorMiddle Grade
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The Scorpio Races

Maggie Stiefvater · 435 pages

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different. She

HorsesRural FarmTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Triple Fault

Jessica Burkhart · 268 pages

While pretending to date Jacob to make Sasha jealous, Heather also deals with a new girl who is extremely competitive and a former best friend who steals boyfriends. Sasha tries to keep her budding relationship with Eric a secret while figuring out how to deal with her former best friend going out with Sasha's ex-boyfriend. All the while she is wary of the dangerous new girl named Jasmine. Book #

HorsesTeen ProtagonistMiddle GradeYoung Adult
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Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse · 235 pages

"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ." A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands. To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. Wh

Rural FarmMiddle GradeTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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National Velvet

Enid Bagnold · 215 pages

In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase.

HorsesTeen ProtagonistMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Ashleigh's Dream

Joanna Campbell · 192 pages

HorsesMiddle GradeTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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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 FarmTeen ProtagonistMiddle Grade
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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 GradeHistorical Fiction
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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy · 301 pages

*All the Pretty Horses* is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Along with *The Crossing* (1994), and C*ities of the Plain* (19

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The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

Anton DiSclafani · 420 pages

Exiled to an equestrian boarding school in the South at the height of the Great Depression for her role in a family tragedy, strong-willed teen Thea Atwell grapples with painful memories while acclimating to the school's strict environment.

HorsesTeen ProtagonistFirst Person NarratorHistorical Fiction
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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

HorsesRural FarmFirst Person NarratorFemale Lead
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Meet Felicity: An American Girl

Valerie Tripp · 68 pages

In Williamsburg in 1774, nine-year-old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse who is being beaten and starved by her cruel owner.

HorsesTeen ProtagonistMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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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.

HorsesRural FarmHistorical FictionFemale Lead

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