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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alone in the world, Jay Barton is a teenage misfit with nothing much going for her besides an extraordinary talent for understanding racehorses and riding them like a pro. When, in a desperate attempt to escape her shifty, opportunistic uncle, she leaves home to work in a racing stable, Jay forms a bond with a beautiful gray mare named Manhattan -- brilliant, misunderstood, dangerous, and heading for racing's scrap heap. Recognizing a fellow misfit,...
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Georgia, who loves horses as much as she hates her bullying stepbrother, buys a figurine of a winged horse and finds it has magical powers that transport her from present-day London to the sixteenth-century world of Talia where, in the city of Remora, similar to Sienna, Italy, she finds danger and intrigue as well as friendship and a chance to perfect her riding skills.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
When her father returns from the Iraq War as an amputee with post-traumatic stress disorder, Hannah escapes by volunteering to work with rescued horses, never thinking that the abused horses could also help her father recover.
4) Belladonna
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1757 England, clever but unschooled Thomas Rose helps the spirited Ling seek Belladonna, the horse she rode in the circus, and in their quest they meet painter George Stubbs who euthanizes animals to study their anatomy, but he assures them her horse is safe at a nearby estate.
5) Wind rider
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fern, a teenager living in 4000 B.C., defies the expectations of her people by displaying a unique and new ability to tame horses and by also questioning many of the traditional activities of women.
Author
Series
Centauriad volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Alone after her village is destroyed by Leatherwings, young Melora and her father's horse, Sky, survive on their own with a herd of wild horses until she finds a new home with a civilization of centaurs.
7) Wild hearts
Author
Series
If only novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When residents of a small Wyoming town protest her developer father's plan to build a hotel on land used by mustangs for grazing, sixteen-year-old Brie, who enjoys the excitement of moving to a new place each year, finds herself falling for a young protester who rescues and rehabilitates mustangs.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While competing in the three junior national equitation championships, seventeen-year-old Francie Martinez learns to believe in herself and makes some decisions about the type of person she wants to be.
Author
Series
Centauriad volume 02
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her closest friends, Malora leaves the safety of Mount Kheiron for the bush then the bustling city of the Ka in search of Sky, the stallion who used to lead Malora's herd of horses, and finds herself faced with making decisions about her future in new ways.
10) Homestretch
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from an abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas race track, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
To escape her father's overprotectiveness, twenty-year-old Kenzie Caine spends the summer working at a horse farm rehabilitating Tennessee Walking horses, where a good deed results in a violent end to the summer and the revelation of her attractive assistant's secrets.--
Vanderbilt University student Kenzie Caine plans to become a veterinarian. Landing a summer job caring for and helping to rehabilitate abused horses at the Bellmeade Estate stables...
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