For Love of a Horse
10 best books like For Love of a Horse (Patricia Leitch): The Silver Brumby, Old Bones the Wonder Horse, Green Grass of Wyoming, Eleanor McGraw, a Pony Named Mouse and a Boy Called Fire (Hawthorne Horses, #1), Summer Pony, Album of Horses, Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America, The Horses in My Life, Jill's Gymkhana, Piper at the Gate
A silver brumby is special, but he will be hunted by man and horse alike, and must be stronger than both. Thowra, the magnificent silver stallion, is king of the brumbies. But he must defend his herd from the mighty horse, The Brolga, in the most savage of struggles. But that is not the only danger. Thowra...
| Author | Mildred Mastin Pace |
| ISBN | 9011278925 |
This is an old favorite that I loved when I was 8 or so. My battered old paperback edition & another both gave up the ghost when my kids read them, so I've been without for years. Can't recall the last time I read it myself or to/with one of the kids. Then I won an Ebay auction & the seller couldn't find...
| Author | Mary O'Hara |
| ISBN | 1405210028 |
There is something all encompassing about that moment when somebody discovers that they can love; that they can truly, madly and wholly love somebody or something. It becomes the everything that they are, the everything that they do. It is the air, the earth, the word, the whisper. Everything is about...
Eleanor McGraw, a Pony Named Mouse and a Boy Called Fire (Hawthorne Horses, #1)
Eleanor McGraw, vertically challenged, empathic and sharp daughter of folk musician Isabel Payne and a world famous rock guitarist, wakes up a few days shy of her 14th birthday to a life more ordinary. After years of vagabonding around the world alongside a series of chaotic father figures, they are...
| Author | Jean Slaughter Doty |
| ISBN | 0020429509 |
In yet another of my "read over and over as a kid and lost but now found" review series, I bring you Summer Pony. In this amazing book, a young girl's parents rent a pony for her for one summer. They go to a totally run down farm where 20 ponies are being kept in horrible conditions (which in a story today would...
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 0689717091 |
From award-winning author Marguerite Henry comes a classic reference work about horses and their origins.
How did the Morgan horse get its name?
What are the differences between a Belgian and a Clydesdale?
Why are the Byerly Turk, Darley Arabian, and Godolphin Arabian so important?
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| Author | Charles Leerhsen |
| ISBN | 0743291778 |
A hundred years ago, the most famous athlete in America was a horse. But Dan Patch was more than a sports star; he was a cultural icon in the days before the automobile. Born crippled and unable to stand, he was nearly euthanized. For a while, he pulled the grocer's wagon in his hometown of Oxford, Indiana....
| Author | Monty Roberts |
| ISBN | 1570763232 |
I read this book in two days. It was a pageturner, but only for those highly interested in the subject of horse training methods using nonviolence. Monty retells touching stories of the most influential horses in his life. I cried at least twice! Though the stories are in general about his trials and tribulations...
| Author | Ruby Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0340041366 |
The first in the 'Jill' series, reissued in 2009 by Fidra Books with the full, original text, unmodernised and un-Bowdlerised, and the Caney illustrations. This tells the story of how Jill Crewe and her mother move to Chatton in straitened circumstances despite which they are able to buy a cottage with...
| Author | Mary Stanton |
| ISBN | 0671698206 |
While i liked the characters in this book awhole lot more, i felt alot of it was too easy? not believable? It was like, the story is great, alot of potential, but the author didn't want to take the time to lead you there. Also,at the beginning of the book, I like Piper...alot. But by the end, he loses something,...
| Author | Bonnie Timmons |
| ISBN | 0761115366 |
Celebrate the mysterious bond between horse and horse-lover.
The pleasure of whoa. The surprise of the “unscheduled dismount.” And why, when jumping, to throw your heart over first. Drawing on her lifelong passion for horses and riding, award-winning artist Bonnie Timmons offers...
| Author | K.M. Peyton |
| ISBN | 0955191092 |
In a way I'm glad I read one of Peyton's books right at the start of my pony book discovery for she's by far the best author I've read in the genre and now I can focus on her back catalogue. Then again, it does set an impossible standard for all the authors I have yet to discover.
Fly-By-Night is special...
| Author | Jane Smiley |
| ISBN | 0375862277 |
A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.
Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all...
| Author | Joanna Campbell |
| ISBN | 0061065412 |
Is Melanie leaving the only place that's ever felt like home?
Melanie Graham expected Whitebrook Farm to be the most boring place in America. And she thought her cousin, Christina Reese, would be a snob.
But after an entire summer at Whitebrook, Melanie has changed her mind. Whitebrook...
The Soul of a Horse: Life Lessons from the Herd
| Author | Joe Camp |
| ISBN | 0307406857 |
A surprise birthday gift plunged Joe Camp and his wife, Kathleen, into the world of horses as complete neophytes without a clue as to what horses needed or wanted. The Camps went searching for logic and sense in the rule books of traditional horse care and what they found was not what they had expected....
Saddled: How a Spirited Horse Reined Me In and Set Me Free
| Author | Susan Richards |
| ISBN | 0547241720 |
One day, at the age of thirty-one, Susan Richards realized that she was an alcoholic. She wrote it down in her journal, struck by the fact that it had taken nine years of waking up hung-over to name her illness. What had changed?
Susan had a new horse, a spirited Morgan named Georgia, and, as she...
A valuable show jumper is dead, and it’s all her fault, which is why 14-year-old Kate McGregor has put horses and riding out of her life. Forever!
But her new summer job as a companion to Holly Chapman, a former riding star who’s now confined to a wheelchair, takes Kate back to the barn — the...
When Jay moves from her home in England to live with her estranged father in rural New Zealand, it is only his promise of a pony of her own that convinces her to leave her old life behind and start over in a new country.
Change doesn’t come easily at first, and Jay makes as many enemies as she does...
