Best Horse Fiction
Top 10 Best Horse Fiction
: The Black Stallion, Misty of Chincoteague, Stormy, Misty's Foal, Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague, The Horse and His Boy, The Blue Sword, White Stallion of Lipizza, The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West, Black Gold, War Horse
| Author | Walter Farley |
| ISBN | 0965476022 |
Published originally in 1941, this book is about a young boy, Alec Ramsay who finds a wild black stallion at a small Arabian port on the Red Sea. Between the black stallion and young boy, a strange understanding grew that you lead them through untold dangers as they journeyed to America. Nor could Alec...
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 1416927832 |
On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Among them is the most mysterious of all, Phantom, a rarely seen mare that eludes all efforts to capture her--that is, until a young boy and girl lay eyes on her and determine that they can't live without her....
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 1416927883 |
A raging storm slashes across Assateague and Chincoteague islands. Water is everywhere The wild ponies and the people must battle for their lives.
In the midst of the storm, Misty-the famous mare of Chincoteague-is about to give birth. Paul and Maureen are frantic with worry as the storm rages...
Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 1416927840 |
An orphaned Chincoteague colt restores happiness to his new owners in this beloved horse story from Newbery Award–winning author Marguerite Henry.
Movie men have come to Chincoteague to film the annual Pony Penning, and Paul and Maureen are thrilled—until they learn that the producers...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0439861365 |
“Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.”
This felt as if I was reading a folktale about a horse and a boy who wander around and seek their new adventure. Yet the humor in this book is abundant, even though the...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0441068804 |
This is the story of Corlath, golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the Lady Aerin.
And this is the story of Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl who became Harimad-sol, King's Rider, and heir to the Blue Sword, Gonturan, that no woman had wielded since the Lady Aerin herself...
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 0027436284 |
The magnificent Lipizzan stallions of Vienna come to life as never before in this exciting story by award-winning author, Marguerite Henry.
A young boy named Hans dreams of one day working with the famed stallions of Lipizza. But coming from a family of bakers, Hans is discouraged from ever...
| Author | Mary Stanton |
| ISBN | 0671654101 |
The Heavenly Horse is the Dancer, a shining Appaloosa stallion, first of all horses in the Army of One Hundred and Five and guardian of the Courts of the Outermost West.
Anor the Executioner, monstrous and fanged, is the servant of the Dark Horse. He comes from the Gates of Death—and if he can,...
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 0689715625 |
No one thinks much of Black Gold because he is so small. But Jaydee sees something special in his eyes. He knows Black Gold would be great if he was his rider! Finally, Jaydee gets his wish. And Black Gold grows strong and fast under his careful hands. Soon it would be time for the most important race in America....
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 0439796636 |
A powerful tale of war, redemption and a hero's journey.
In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charges toward the enemy, witnessing the horror of the battles...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0345468635 |
"This fast-moving historical fantasy by bestselling author Anne McCaffrey traces the beginnings of the British cavalry, as recounted by a boy growing up in exciting and perilous times.
"After his father's death, young Galwyn Varianus is apprenticed to his uncle, who puts the boy to work on the...
| Author | Jean M. Auel |
| ISBN | 0553381660 |
This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.
Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child,...
| 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 | Kristen Britain |
| ISBN | 0886778581 |
On her long journey home from school after a fight which will surely lead to her expulsion, Karigan G'ladheon ponders her future as she trudges through the immense forest called Green Cloak. But her thoughts are interrupted by the clattering of hooves as a galloping horse bursts from the woods, the rider...
| 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...
Lovely Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, did not think it was a strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. She never thought to look for her missing husband in Vienna -- until she saw him in a newsreel shot there at the...
| Author | Mercedes Lackey |
| ISBN | 0886773784 |
Follows the adventures of Talia as she trains to become a Herald of Valdemar in the first book in the classic epic fantasy Arrows trilogy
Chosen by the Companion Rolan, a mystical horse-like being with powers beyond imagining, Talia, once a runaway, has now become a trainee Herald, destined...
The Black Stallion Mystery
| Author | Walter Farley |
| ISBN | 0679827005 |
CHASING THE BLAKC:S ELUSIVE SIRE
Devoted fans of Alec Ramsay and his famous Black horse will be delighted by the mystery lurking--with increasing literary tension and menace--in this 13th in the YA series. Apparently parentless (or emancipated) by this novel, Alec is free to choose his own...
| Author | Laura Moore |
| ISBN | 0671042920 |
Hopelessly hokey, cheesy Harlequinny romance between a Mary Sue (she is naturally gorgeous but doesn't know it! She saves orphans and animals in her spare time!) and the commitment-phobe manwhore who doesn't stand a chance against her irresistible charms, complete with a cartoonishly psycho ex...
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 0689845227 |
Long ago, a lone little burro roamed the high cliffs of the Grand Canyon and touched the hearts of all who knew him: a grizzled old miner, a big-game hunter, even President Teddy Roosevelt. Named Brighty by the prospector who befriended him, he remained a free spirit at heart. But when a ruthless claim-jumper...
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...
The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories
| Author | Beryl Markham |
| ISBN | 0865473013 |
I loved West With the Night, so I was looking forward to this one. Pah! Let's establish right up front that when I was a kid we had horses. I love their soft velvety lips with the prickly chin whiskers, their smooth coats, the way they twitch their skin to flick off the flies, their welcoming nickers, the way...
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060885386 |
Are you hungry yet?
Much of Laura's childhood was spent in near-starvation. While they always had something to eat, it was never enough for the family to be satisfied.
Thus when Laura wrote about Almanzo (her future husband)'s childhood, she focused on the most idyllic parts and what...
