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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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The story of an eleven year old boy whose one intense desire is that he have a colt of his own. The whole action of the story takes place against the pattern of a ranch devoted to raising blooded horses, out in Wyoming. At last his wish is granted, and he chooses his yearling, against all advice. The story is centered on the process of winning 'Flicka' and of proving the rightness of his choice.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
Author
Series
Flicka trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Ken McLaughlin's mare, Flicka, give birth to an ugly white colt that Ken's mother names Thunderhead. It becomes clear as Thunderhead grows that he possesses unusual capacties of strength, speed, and intelligence. The young stallion becomes an incomparabel racehorse, king of a wild brood of horses and the center of an absorbing story of adventure in the mountains and plains of Wyoming.
Author
Series
Winnie the early years volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Eight-year-old Winnie is torn between being a good friend to her old horse, Chief, and unpopular friend, Simon, and wrangling an invitation to mean girl Tamson's birthday sleepover.
Author
Series
Winnie the early years volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Eight-year-old Winnie is determined to become a horse gentler like her mother, both to prove herself to Austin, a big-talking classmate who owns a thoroughbred, and to save the ranch.
Author
Series
Winnie the early years volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Winnie doesn't think she has anything in common with crabby Aunt Betty and her homesick horse, Buck. Who ever heard of a horse too scared to leave the barn? But when Winnie is invited to her first sleepover, suddenly she understands how hard it can be to leave home.
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Series
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Convinced that she is wanted only as a servant in her new home with relatives on a Wyoming ranch, orphaned, eleven-year-old Abby is unhappy until she finds and befriends an injured Mustang and determines to try to save it no matter what the cost is to herself.
11) Pinta el viento
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
12) Wild horse
Author
Series
Mustang Mountain volume 4
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Cousins Alison and Becky travel to Wyoming along with their friend Meg to spend their school holiday on a horse ranch, but Alison's foul mood threatens to make the week more a trial than a treat until she finds purpose in caring for a sick wild horse.
Description
Spending the summer on her grandparents Wyoming ranch was a new and exciting opportunity for ten-year-old Mary Andrews. She lived in Denver, Colorado, and being around horses and cattle every day was a different experience. Having to do daily chores like gathering eggs and keeping an extra-close eye on her dog Princess was also new. She found it hard enough to just make her bed and keeping her clothes picked up.
But life took a dramatic turn for the...
15) Paint the wind
Author
Pub. Date
[released 2009], c2009
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.