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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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Description
"Engaging images accompany information about the Lipizzan Horse. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
4) Lipizzans
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Includes facts, characteristics, and general information about the Lipizzan horse.
Author
Language
English
Description
Nicolas von Bingen and Alex von Hemmerle, titled members of the German aristocracy, have been best friends since childhood. Both widowers, they are raising their children - Nick's two lively boys and Alex's adored teenage daughter - in peace and luxury on the vast Bavarian estates that have belonged to their families for generations. While Nick indulges in more glamorous pursuits, Alex devotes himself to breeding the renowned white Lipizzaner horses...
Author
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The year is 1945 in Austria, where an SS officer and some of his men visit a stable, determined to find the Jewish boy they believe the owner is hiding there. Luckily, just as Jakob-the boy in question-is about to be found, the men are called away...but not before the SS officer shoots and kills Jakob's favorite horse. It's very clear then, to Jakob and his guardian, that they are no longer safe there. Traveling through Nazi territory with that many...
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Maestoso Petra, a Lipizzaner stallion, trains to perform in the Spanish Riding School and is hidden away during the German occupation of Austria in World War II. Includes facts about Lipizzaner horses and the world-famous Spanish Riding School.
11) The perfect horse: the daring U.S. mission to rescue the priceless stallions kidnapped by the Nazis
Author
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion comes the riveting true story of the valiant rescue of priceless pedigree horses in the last days of World War II. As the Russians closed in on Hitler from the east and the Allies attacked from the west, American soldiers discovered a secret Nazi effort to engineer a master race of the finest purebred horses. With the support of U.S. general George S. Patton, a passionate...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The story of the world-famous Lipizzaner stallions - from their origins in ancient times to the almost unknown drama of their rescue in 1945, beginning with the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, where the white stallions perform an impressive display of beauty and power that celebrates a perfect harmony between horse and rider. Movements originally intended for use in war.
18) Lipizzans
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Describes the history and physical characteristics of the horses known for their performances at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
"A breed apart...In 1930's Austria, life for Favory Mercurio, a Lipizzaner stallion bearing the crest of the renowned Piber stud, begins with the loss of his mother. From that moment on, the young horse feels different, as if he has a missing piece--even though, despite his doubters, he has talent enough to be accepted into the famed Spanish Riding School. Slowly, but doggedly, Mercury perseveres through the rigors of his years of training..."--P....
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