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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Orphaned at age six and taken in by a heartless couple, nine-year-old Katie Rose spends her days doing chores and dreaming of going west to find her Uncle Jack. Then Mr. Stevens brings home an unbroken Mustang, and Katie's world changes. Katie is drawn to the horse's wildness, and he seems to sense her need for companionship. So when Katie learns that the Stevenses plan to join the expansion West, without her or the Mustang, she makes a desperate...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In 1773, twelve-year-old Silence works to please her mother through household chores and weekly etiquette lessons in hopes of spending time with her beloved horse, Lily, while the men of Boston, including her Loyalist father and brother, discuss a possible war over taxation without representation.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
After returning home with her horse from Connemara, Lara no feels that her old life has anything to offer, so she tries to find another place for herself and her horse which is safe from the warring clans.
8) Esperanza
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Esperanza, a wild filly who is part of a group of mares, joins a larger herd, she makes friends with Strider, a young stallion, and when the two are separated from the herd they must face the dangers of the wilderness on their own.
9) Sierra
Author
Series
Spirit of the Cimarron volume 03
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The story of Sierra, a young horse who is part of a herd of wild horses led by Shadow, an older stallion. Each chapter begins with reminiscences by Sierra of life in the herd. As a young filly, Sierra was fiesty and restless and loved to gallop wherever she could. One day that impulse gets her in serious trouble.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In the Colorado Territory in 1875, orphan Margret and her older sister Libby are staying with the kind-hearted Mrs. Fredrickson when Margret finds an injured horse which she nurses back to health and wants to keep, while Libby is too mistrustful of people to think that they might possibly have found a home.
15) Spirit
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sprit, a young wild mustang, sets out against impossible odds to regain his freedom and save his homeland. On his courageous journey across the American frontier, Spirit forms a remarkable friendship with a Lakota brave, outwits a squadron of soldiers, and falls for a paint mare named Rain.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
As leader of a herd of wild mustangs, Spirit has known only freedom. But all that changes when the powerful stallion is captured by wranglers and sold to the cavalry. Spirit refuses to let himself be broken by these men, but the battle to regain his freedom is not to be an easy one.
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