The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West

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	Clare Bell
ISBN	0689504020

The first time I read this book, I was... oh, about ten or twelve. It came in a large pile of five-cent books at a flea market and was missing both the covers, so I had no idea what I was getting into when I opened it. All I knew was that it said "Tomorrow's Sphinx" on the spine, with this itty bitty icon of a black...

Author	Meredith Ann Pierce
ISBN	0142500747

The Final Volume of the Firebringer Trilogy
A secret haunts Jan's dying father, Korr a secret so dark that, if exposed, could bring the downfall of the Firebringer. Jan is left with its terrible burden, and an impossible choice: renounce Tek, his beloved mate, and lose forever the kingship of the...

Author	Garry Kilworth
ISBN	0552545465

Long ago, long before Sylver the weasel was born, the humans all left Welkin. Now life for a weasel—under the heavy paw of the vicious stoat rulers—is pretty miserable (unless you happen to be a weasel who likes living in a hovel and toiling all hours for the benefit of the stoats).

It's certainly...

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?
...

Author	Patricia Leitch
ISBN	0590053698

Jinny saw the accident. From the top of the hill, she watched helplessly as the heavy oil truck swung around the curve in the road.

She heard the crunch of metal, and the screech of terrified horses as the truck slammed into the horse trailer.

Tears streaming down her cheeks, she raced...

Author	Martin H. Greenberg
ISBN	0886775043

part of this anthology: Silverdown's Gold - 5 stars

Trionn the scullion could never pause anywhere for more than a minute without attracting a heap of cats. It did not matter wether his clothes reeked of the midden on those days when he raked out the garbage, or if he was simply sitting, huddled...

Author	C.W. Anderson
ISBN	0689717121

Billy and his loyal pony Blaze head west together in another exciting adventure from C. W. Anderson. When their new friend Jim is unable to tame the wild horse Thunderbolt, Billy and Blaze want to help. Fast and elusive, Thunderbolt is not easy to befriend. But with their kind and gentle approach, Billy...

Author	Catherine Hapka
ISBN	0375867198

For all lovers of horses and history, it's the next book in the popular Horse Diaries series. Born in the Arabian Desert in the ninth century, Yatimah is a black Arabian filly whose name means "orphan." She enjoys her life at the oasis, with sheep to tease, other foals to race, and the daughter of her Bedouin...

Author	Walter Farley
ISBN	1893354903

For many years, The Black Stallion books by Walter Farley have been among the most popular books with young readers on the Navajo Nation. With this in mind, Salina Bookshelf, working in conjunction with the Black Stallion Literacy Project, offers a new edition of the 1961 children's classic Little...

Author	Kathleen Duey
ISBN	0142301159

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is one of my favourite childhood movies and I maintain a deep love for it, even if I sometimes find myself avoiding it because it always makes me bawl my eyes out (this one and the Disney film Brother Bear always pack an astonishing emotional punch).
Inevitably this...

Author	Doranna Durgin
ISBN	0671876171

When hikers Dayna and Eric find a young woman naked, terrified, and speechless, they're sure she's the victim of foul play. But the truth is much more shocking: she isn't human at all. She's Dun Lady's Jess, a horse transformed into this new shape by the spell that brought her and her rider, to whom she is...

Author	Jane Kendall
ISBN	0375858423

Vienna, Austria, 1938

Maestoso Petra is a world-famous Lipizzaner stallion. He has spent years in the Spanish Riding School, training to perform the complex airs above the ground that only Lipizzaner can accomplish. But when World War II breaks out in Europe, he learns to think less about...

Author

Patricia Hermes

Born in Northern Nevada in 1950, Black Cloud is a black-and-white mustang colt. He loves roaming free with the rest of his herd, playing with the other foals, and learning the ways of wild horses. But when humans intrude on this wandering life, Black Cloud's world is changed forever. Like Black Beauty,...

Author	Alison Hart
ISBN	0375968334

For all lovers of horses and history, it's the next book in the popular Horse Diaries series. Born in California at the start of the Great Depression, Risky Chance is a gray thoroughbred who was born to race. Life at the track and being spoiled by his jockey's young daughter, Marie, is all Chance could ask...

Author	Terri Farley
ISBN	0060886188

Darby is excited to go on a "volcano watch," camping out and observing the island's volcanoes, despite recent small earthquakes that could mean an eruption is coming. After all, Darby grew up in California, so she's used to the earth rumbling now and then. Plus, the expedition is perfect for working...

Author	Toby Bishop
ISBN	0441014623

Oh maaaaaan. I read this book about two years ago. I bought it because of the cover; magical companion animals of any stripe are one of my bulletproof fictional kinks but flying horses are my kryptonite. I'm not proud.

So I bought this and read it.

Ow.

(spoilers below)

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