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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMeet Kaya
Janet Beeler Shaw · 70 pages
In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Percé Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. Includes historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
Mr. Tucket
Gary Paulsen · 166 pages
Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes to help Francis become the ma
Chickadee
Louise Erdrich · 210 pages
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
When The Legends Die
Hal Borland · 216 pages
When his father killed another brave, Thomas Black Bull and his parents sought refuge in the wilderness. There they took up life as it had been in the old days, hunting and fishing, battling for survival. But an accident claimed the father's life and the grieving mother died shortly afterward. Left alone, the young Indian boy vowed never to return to the white man's world, to the alien laws that h
Sees Behind Trees
Michael Dorris · 104 pages
A Native American boy with a special gift to "see" beyond his poor eyesight journeys with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty.
Fools Crow
James Welch · 416 pages
"The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature." (Wallace Stegner) In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The men hunt and mount the occasional horse-taking raid or war party against the enemy Crow. The women
How I Became a Ghost
Tim Tingle · 141 pages
A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind.
Riding the Pony Express
Clyde Robert Bulla · 95 pages
Dick travels from New York to meet his father, a rider for the Pony Express. His father is not in St. Joe and he continues to Owl Creek, one of the way stations where riders change horses.
Some Kind of Courage
Dan Gemeinhart · 240 pages
In 1890 Washington the only family Joseph Johnson has left is his half-wild Indian pony, Sarah, so when she is sold by a man who has no right to do so, he sets out to get her back--and he plans to let nothing stop him in his quest.
White Stallion of Lipizza
Marguerite Henry · 116 pages
A young boy named Hans dreams of one day working with the famed stallions of Lipizza. But coming from a family of bakers, Hans is discouraged from ever becoming a rider. That is, until the day he is invited to watch the extraordinary Ballet of Lipizzaners—from the Imperial Box!—and his life is changed forever.
The Horse-Tamer
Walter Farley · 144 pages
A late eighteenth-century carriage maker turns professional horse-tamer, and deals with many vicious or badly trained horses, and one unscrupulous showman.
Blood on the River: James Town 1607
Elisa Carbone · 246 pages
Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can't believe his good fortune. He's heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like
The Work of Wolves
Kent Meyers · 407 pages
"Even at the tender age of fourteen, Carson Fielding possessed a preternatural gift for communicating with horses, as well as for sizing up the people he meets in his South Dakota reserveration border town. So when Carson buys his first horse - a run-down, wild-eyed roan - from wealthy rancher Magnus Yarborough, he quickly develops an instinctive dislike for the man and his rough manner with peopl
Secret of the Andes
Ann Nolan Clark · 130 pages
An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
Helen Frost · 138 pages
Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension brought by the War of 1812. Told in free verse, twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension bro
Mr. Revere and I
Robert Lawson · 152 pages
An account of the life of the Revere family and the activities of the Sons of Liberty as told from the point of view of Paul Revere's horse.
Born to Trot
Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis · 220 pages
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.
The Young Black Stallion
Walter Farley, Steven Farley · 160 pages
The Winter Horses
Philip Kerr
Kalinka is in danger. She is alone on the frigid, snowy Ukrainian steppe. She is pursued by the Nazis. Tracked like prey. The cold is strangling her, and the hunger won't go away. No food, no warmth, no help. Except for a loyal dog and two remarkable horses she is trying to save, against all odds. Her only allies. Are they enough? - Author Philip Kerr
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
Peril at King's Creek: A Felicity Mystery
Elizabeth McDavid Jones · 163 pages
In 1776, Penny is concerned that the British Army will steal her horse and burn her family's plantation.