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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWonder Horse: The True Story of the World's Smartest Horse
Emily Arnold McCully
A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
Fritz and the Beautiful Horses
Jan Brett · 31 pages
Fritz, a pony excluded from the group of beautiful horses within the walled city, becomes a hero when he rescues the children of the city.
Cowardly Clyde
Bill Peet · 43 pages
For a war horse, Clyde is an abysmal coward, but he finally decides that even if he isn't brave he can at least act brave.
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
Paul Goble · 32 pages
Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.
Little Black, A Pony
Walter Farley · 64 pages
When a small boy graduates from his little pony to a big horse, the pony is sad until the time comes when he is able to do something the big horse cannot do.
Leroy Ninker Saddles Up
Kate DiCamillo · 96 pages
Forging an instant bond with spaghetti-loving horse Maybelline, horseless cowboy Leroy Ninker inadvertently risks eternal loneliness when he forgets a vital third rule about Maybelline's care. Leroy has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse, until he meets Maybelline. When Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Book #1
Madeline in London
Ludwig Bemelmans · 56 pages
Madeline and the other girls travel to London to visit their former neighbor on his birthday.
The White Stag
Kate Seredy · 94 pages
For generations the tribes of Huns and Magyars had moved relentlessly westward, obeying the voices of their pagan gods, which compelled them to follow the elusive white stag to their promised homeland. They swept Europe, all the while pursuing their vision of the stag. Their leader was called Attila, and the land Hungary. Here is the epic story of their tribal migration and their fierce leader - k
The Princess Knight
Cornelia Funke · 32 pages
Violetta, a little princess, is determined to become as big and strong as her brothers. She secretly teaches herself to become the bravest and cleverest knight in the land until she must face the king's best knights in a jousting tournament. Will she be ready?
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.
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell · 226 pages
Black Beauty is the suspenseful and deeply moving account of a horse's experiences at the hands of many owners — some, sensitive riders who treated him gently; others, cruel drivers who thoughtlessly inflicted lasting damage. Written as the animal's autobiography, and as an appeal for the humane treatment of horses,
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy · 128 pages
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.
Horse Crazy
Bonnie Bryant · 135 pages
Carole and Stevie are happy to find that Lisa, the new student at Pine Hollow Stables, shares their enthusiam for riding and horses and, as their friendship grows, the three girls decide to form the Saddle Club.
War Horse
Michael Morpurgo · 158 pages
In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.
The Horse and His Boy
C.S. Lewis · 208 pages
Bree, the talking horse, has been kidnapped from Narnia, and longs to return. Shasta decides to run away with him. Before they know it, they are on a dangerous journey together, through strange cities, tombs and harsh deserts.
Nelson Mandela
Kadir Nelson · 40 pages
Presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.