After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.

A tale of human devotion to a horse; the devotion of Al Hoots, its owner, of Hanley Webb, trainer, and of Jaydee Mooney, jockey. It is also a tale of an extremely courageous horse with a will to win.

When a child goes missing in New York City's Times Square, Finnegan the police horse leads his partner, Fox, to the rescue.

Cowgirl Kate and her horse Cocoa watch over the new calves, a puppy, and some baby barn owls.

Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.

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.

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. A companion to "Gib Rides Home." Leaving the Lovell House Orphanage for the second time, Gib Whittaker goes to live with the Thornton family and takes care of the family's beautiful thoroughbred Black Silk. When a strange, severely...

"Young wild colt Sky must find his way over rough terrain to rejoin his family after being captured for the Pony Express"--Title verso page.

Jack, an introverted goat, and Charlie, a blind horse, meet at Open Bud Ranch, an animal rehabilitation center, and form an unlikely friendship that grows stronger in the face of adversity.

Illustrated excerpts from the nineteenth century classic relate the experiences of a young horse as he explores his home, plays with other colts, and learns from his loving mother to be gentle and good.