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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For Noah Mabry, it's easier sometimes to relate to the dogs and horses he trains than to other people. Ever since his marriage became a casualty of the war in Afghanistan--torn apart by the PTSD he brought back with him--he prefers to be on his own. At the Bar C Ranch, where he works with a crew of fellow military vets, his gentle patience helps tame even the rowdiest mustang--but he's about to meet a woman who needs a healing touch he's not sure...
2) Crossfire
Author
Language
English
Description
Shell-shocked and missing a foot-lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan-Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent "home" by the army and, at loose ends, returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined up at seventeen. But Josephine Kauri, the "first lady of British racing," has always put the horses she trains first and her family last. Tom soon finds himself strained to the breaking point with his mother and stepfather....
Author
Series
Painted Pony Creek volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Cord Hollister is a true cowboy at heart. As a man who has devoted his life to training horses under the big skies of Montana, he thrives on the stability of ranch life. But when a girl arrives in Painted Pony Creek with a shocking secret, Cord's orderly life is upended. She's the spitting image of the first woman who broke his heart - a woman he hasn't seen in years - and he'll do whatever he can to help her. He just can't do it alone. Shallie Fletcher...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas or A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
When Happy Go Lucky gets to be in his first show with Dapper Dan, a very professional show pony, Happy is a little nervous since new places can be scary, and Happy does not know what to expect.
7) Bone Lake
Author
Publisher
Madison Park Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Callen Norgaard is 11 years old and grew up as a member of the True Word Brethren, a racist cult teaching intolerance and hate...until the night a fire kills her mother and puts her in the custody of the FBI. The FBI takes Callen to her Uncle Eli's ranch for abused horses in Bone Lake, California. As Eli and his wife, Isabelle, try to teach Callen that life isn't all black and white, they make progress, but they need time...and with the cult's assassins...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.
10) Racing Parker
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 33
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Christina depends on Parker Townsend to train her horse for higher jumps.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 690L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 26
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
While preparing for her first competition, Christina is injured in a fall and loses her spot on the team.
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 47
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Recovering from surgery that may have ended her racing career, jockey Cindy McLean opens her journal from her eighteenth year, dipping back into the time in her life when she was most brave and strong--when she left home to race horses in an Arab country where women and men are considered anything but equal.
14) Star's chance
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 45
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Wonder Star has recovered from his illness and Christina takes him to a Montana ranch to rehabilitate. Will the colt's spirit return? And will they recover the communication and trust they once had?
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 27
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Christina is determined to enter high-level competitions but in trying to make faster progress, she loses her horse's trust; meanwhile, her cousin Melanie trains a foal.
16) Without wonder
Author
Series
Thoroughbred. Wonder's legacy volume 36
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Christina decides to take care of a sickly colt born to Wonder.
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 29
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Melanie loves living in Kentucky but when she is framed for sabotaging other riders she fears her father will make her return to New York.
18) Dylan's choice
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 30
Publisher
HarperHorizon
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Christina Reese is concerned because Dylan Becker has abondoned their friendship and riding horses in favor of soccer.
19) Fallen Star
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 43
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Christina tries to cure Wonder's Star, a horse which keeps deteriorating physically.
20) Perfect Image
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 44
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Melanie wants to train Image, a wild mare, to be a winning horse.
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