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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Are you crazy for horses? Do you dream about owning your very own horse one day? Are your walls covered with pictures of their beautiful coats and flowing manes? Horse fans cant get enough of loveable equines. From horse history and life cycles to physical features, characteristics, and communication, find out everything you want to know about your favorite animal!
82) Winter's gift
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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On Christmas Eve, an old farmer whose wife has died acquires new hope after helping a pregnant mare in a snowstorm.
83) Claws for alarm
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Death stalks the Blue Ridge Mountains once again and Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen, along with her beloved cats, is on the case. Pharamond "Fair" Haristeen is known throughout Crozet, Virginia, as a good horse vet and a better man. When Benjamin Wagner, a new vet in town, is found dead in his unopened clinic, local police turn to Fair for help getting to the bottom of things. He quickly realizes Ben's clinic has been robbed of ketamine, used by doctors...
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"Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Two's closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning Black family. Neither Two nor Hank fit easily into the highly segregated society of 1920s Nashville. When disaster strikes during one of Two's shows, strange things start...
85) Sky rider
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Dealing with her mother's death, a back injury that prevents her from riding, and the imminent destruction of her sick horse, fourteen-year-old Dusty receives physical and spiritual healing from the ghost of a recently killed boy.
86) True Blue
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
88) Keeping secrets
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Sadie's Montana volume 2
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Sadie must choose between Mark, who finds it hard to tell her the secrets of his past, and Daniel, a visitor from Lancaster County who's funny, well-mannered, and completely dedicated to his family. Meanwhile, there's horse trouble in Montana again - only this time, horses aren't being stolen, they're being shot by snipers in a blue pickup truck.
89) Baby horses
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces baby horses to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
90) Barney's horse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Though he is used to the city streets, Barney's horse becomes frightened of the noisy new overhead trains.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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"On the brink of World War II, a family forced out of their London home flees to the country. Wolfie and his older sister Dodo are devastated to leave behind everything theýve ever known, but they begin settling into their new life. One day, they come across an orphaned foal, which they raise as Hero, a strong and beautiful horse who lives up to his name when he saves the children from a fire. Wolfie and Dodo find comfort in their new life, but the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
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In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home.
94) Wonder horse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Calhoun chronicles volume 2
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"Southern plantation owner Hunter Calhoun gambles the success of his Virginia horse farm on an Irish stallion; unfortunately, the animal arrives crazed and unrideable after the stormy sea crossing. Desperate, Hunter turns to Eliza Flyte, the horsemaster's daughter, who has inherited her father's gift for gentling horses. Her ability to heal wounded spirits with her compassion and wisdom is amazing, and when Hunter convinces her to leave her isolated...
99) Crisis
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Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favorite for the Derby. There is far more to the "simple" fire than initially meets the eye...for a start, human remains are found among the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim? Harry knows very little about...