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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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.
2) Wonder horse
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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
Winnie the early years volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Eight-year-old Winnie is determined to become a horse gentler like her mother, both to prove herself to Austin, a big-talking classmate who owns a thoroughbred, and to save the ranch.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive. It wasn't always this way. Before the Dust came, the people of Coal Top could weave starlight into cloth. They'd wear these dreaming clothes to sleep and wake up with the courage to seek adventure . . ....
6) Gee Whiz
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 5
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named Gee Whiz.
Author
Series
Winnie the early years volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Winnie doesn't think she has anything in common with crabby Aunt Betty and her homesick horse, Buck. Who ever heard of a horse too scared to leave the barn? But when Winnie is invited to her first sleepover, suddenly she understands how hard it can be to leave home.
Author
Series
Heartland volume 8
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Amy has mixed feelings about the return of her father.
Author
Series
Pony pals volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Pam's pony Lightning refuses to obey her and this concerns the Pony Pals.
12) True Blue
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
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.
13) Every new day
Author
Series
Heartland volume 9
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Mercury, a talented performing horse, refuses to jump even the smallest fences. Through helping Mercury perform again, Amy learns that the truest solutions come from within yourself.
Author
Series
Heartland volume 6
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Ever since Amy's mother died, Ty has seemed more like a part of the family than just a stable hand, and when Amy finds herself torn by a family crisis, it is Ty she turns to for support.
15) A good horse
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When eighth grader Abby Lovitt looks out at those pure-gold rolling hills, she knows theres no place shed rather be than her familys ranch-even with all the hard work of tending to nine horses. When he and Abby clear four feet easy as pie, heads start to turn at the ring-buyers heads-and Abby knows Daddy wont turn down a good offer.
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 69
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Melanie is faced with numerous distractions when she tries to train her horse Hi Jinx.
18) Flicka
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Katy dreams of filling her father's shoes by taking over their ranch, while her father wants better for her. When she finds and tries to tame a wild horse, she learns how alike she and this stallion truly are.
19) All or nothing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Malory is invited to try out for an exclusive summer riding team. Caleb, the boy she's liked all year, is trying out too, but if she makes the team, she won't get to see her father or her favorite horse, Tybalt, until the fall. She must decide if the honor of being on the team is worth the price.
20) Bronco busters
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Three rough, tough bronco busters can't tame a little black pony, but a small, quiet cowboy talks to him and brings him water, and then quietly rides away with him.