A Good Horse: Book Two of the Horses of Oak Valley Ranch

Riding Lessons: Ellen & Ned

Mystery Horse

Wonder's Yearling (Thoroughbred Series #6)

Horse Diaries #6: Yatimah

Man O'War

Black Stallion and Satan

Hoofbeats: Katie and the Mustang #4

Horses of Oak Valley Ranch

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 the mares Jewel and all the geldings George and warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her friends) and home (her brother Danny is gonefor good, it seemsand now Daddy wont speak his name), Abby seeks refuge with the Georges and the Jewels. But theres one gelding on her familys farm that gives her no end of trouble: the horse who wont meet her gaze, the horse who bucks her right off every chance he gets, the horse her father makes her ride and train, every day. She calls him the Ornery George.From the Hardcover edition.

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A Good Horse: Book Two of the Horses of Oak Valley Ranch

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Riding Lessons: Ellen & Ned

Jane Smiley, 2018

Mystery Horse

Jane Smiley, Terri Farley, 2011

Wonder's Yearling (Thoroughbred Series #6)

Abbey Campbell Cook, Joanna Campbell, 1993

Horse Diaries #6: Yatimah

Catherine Hapka, 2011

Man O'War

Walter Farley, 1962

Black Stallion and Satan

Walter Farley, 1949

Hoofbeats: Katie and the Mustang #4

Kathleen Duey, 2004