Beauty
10 best books like Beauty (Bill Wallace): Paint the Wind, Ida Early Comes over the Mountain, My Side of the Mountain/On the Far Side of the Mountain, Deadly Stranger, Horse-Sitters, Harry Cat's Pet Puppy, The Blind Colt, Black Beauty, Battlecry Forever!, The Trouble with Tuck
| Author | Pam Muñoz Ryan |
| ISBN | 0439873622 |
This epic horse story, in the tradition of BLACK STALLION, marks exciting new territory for one of our most treasured and celebrated novelists.
A puzzling photograph, a box filled with faded toy horses, and a single fractured memory are all that Maya has left of her mother. In Grandmother house,...
| Author | Robert Burch |
| ISBN | 0140345345 |
This book is a re-read from my childhood. I actually understand the book much better about a quarter century later. I can see why Ida Early is the Mary Poppins of the mountains in Georgia during the Depression. Ida Early comes to the Sutton house the summer after the mother died to take care of the house and...
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| ISBN | 0590372203 |
I'm pretty sure that I read this when I was in elementary school, although my memory of what actually occurred and how I felt about it is pretty slim. When my students chose it as a book to read in class, I wasn't sure how I would feel about it as an adult. Needless to say, it was barely okay.
This story...
| Author | Peg Kehret |
| ISBN | 0671009613 |
I thought this book was amazing. This book is about this girl named Katie and her family move to a new town and she go to a new school but she doesn't want to. But on Katie's first day she meets this girl named Shannon and they start talking and becoming good friends. Then and the end of school they walk home together...
| Author | Bonnie Bryant |
| ISBN | 0553483633 |
American author of children's books. She is best known for creating the intermediate horse book series The Saddle Club, which was published from October 1988 until April 2001. The Saddle Club chronicled the adventures of thirteen-year-old Lisa Atwood and twelve-year-olds Stephanie "Stevie" Lake...
| Author | George Selden |
| ISBN | 0440456479 |
"Get that thing out of here!" Tucker shouted.Tucker Mouse was waiting impatiently in the drainpipe in the Times Square subway station where he and his friend, Harry Cat, made their home. And when Harry finally came home, he was dragging with him what looked like a dirty dish mop. It was a puppy."It's staying...
| Author | Glen Rounds |
| ISBN | 0590323008 |
Having grown up on a Montana ranch, Glen Rounds had the insight to write about the cowboy lifestyle. He did so for more than sixty years, crafting original stories about life on the open range. A fair number of his novels feature Whitey, a young boy who shows all the signs of growing up to be a cowboy, and The...
| Author | Deidre S. Laiken |
| ISBN | 0866119531 |
A horse's life can be filled with love and tenderness. It can also be filled with meanness and cruelty. Black Beauty learns both sides of life in this classic tale by Anna Sewel. Told from the horse's point of view, Black Beauty's own story takes you into the mind and heart of a sensitive animal searching...
| Author | Joanna Campbell |
| ISBN | 0061064823 |
"Battlecry is a loser."
Fifteen-year-old Leslie D'Andrea can have any horse she wants—her parents own stables where they train retired Thoroughbreds to become pleasure riders. But the only horse Leslie wants is Battlecry, a racer everyone else has given up on as wild and untrainable....
| Author | Theodore Taylor |
| ISBN | 0440416965 |
Available for the first time in a Yearling edition, the classic, inspiring story of a dog who triumphs against all odds, by the bestselling author of The Cay.
Helen adored her beautiful golden Labrador from the first moment he was placed in her arms, a squirming fat sausage of creamy yellow fur....
| Author | Lynne Reid Banks |
| ISBN | 0380706490 |
You may think Houdini is a strange name for a hamster, but if you've ever heard of the late Great Houdini, the most amazing escape-artist of all time, you'll understand how I got my name. I'm proud to say that there hasn't been a cage built that can hold me. I can climb, dive, wriggle, squeeze, or gnaw my way...
| Author | Deborah Kestel |
| ISBN | 1603400389 |
My local library didn't have a copy of Bligh's original memoir, but this abridged-for-younger-readers version is faithful to the spirit of the original text. The rigors of life aboard 18th-century sailing ships, the motivations that First Mate Fletcher Christian may have had for leading a famous...
Across The Nightingale Floor, Episode 2: Journey To Inuyama
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 0330446967 |
Lord Otori, Takeo, and Takeo's new teacher Kenji set off to meet Kaede, a fifteen-year-old girl chosen as the future Lady Otori by a group of political collaborators. Takeo is still trying to come to terms with knowing that, through the father he never knew, he is one of the Tribe--a group of mysterious,...
| Author | Roland Smith |
| ISBN | 0786813121 |
my book is jaguar the genre is fiction its about this teen ager who has to stay with his grandpa but he gets a fax from his dad saying he can go to brazil for a week and it ends up being more than just a week and they have a job for him to go and fly a little plane they call the "morpho" so he can train to get a jaguar for...
| Author | Bob Balaban |
| ISBN | 0439401372 |
Meet Thomas and his new best friend McGrowl--a courageous canine who's bionic to the bone!
When Thomas's loveable dog McGrowl is hit by a car, Thomas is heartbroken. But just when he thinks McGrowl will be lost to him forever, the mysterious vet Dr. Minderbender steps in to save the day. After...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0064402886 |
Arthur Rasby is ten years old and having the worst summer of his life. His parents don't listen to him, so he writes everything down -- everything that's real -- in his journal. But when he goes to stay with his Great-Aunt Elda and Great-Uncle Wrisby on their farm, his world is turned upside down. For the...
| Author | Dandi Daley Mackall |
| ISBN | 0842387234 |
Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. Along with her dad and sister, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom, who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches her horses about uncondi-tional love and trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted as well. Readers will be hooked...
