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1. Becoming horses

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Author:
Wallander, Disa
Publisher:
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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"Gem-like comics explore the origins of creativity and the pursuit of happiness with a gentle, self-aware wit. "Sometimes I dream about myself-and in my dream I'm someone else-But also, I am me-becoming the horse that I want to be." Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away...

2. All Horses Become Stars

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Author:
Rossthorn, Naomi
Publisher:
Naomi Rossthorn
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Online Hoopla Collection
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All Horses Become the Stars is a children's book about grief and loss. A tale told of a beloved horse called Trigger who becomes a star and the journey of how his herd cope with their loss. This book is written with children in mind and offers a way to discuss grief and healing after losing someone we love.

3. The lightning thief

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Author:
Riordan, Rick
Series:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 1
Read-On
Lexile measure:
680L
Language:
English
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4.1 stars
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Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse -- Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for...

4. Horse

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Author:
Brooks, Geraldine
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English
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"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...

5. Black Beauty

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Author:
Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878
Series:
Great classics for children
Treasury of illustrated classics
Puffin classics
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Lexile measure:
900L
Language:
English
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.

6. Gulliver's travels

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Author:
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Great illustrated classics volume F224-41
Great books of the Western world volume 36
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Lexile measure:
NC: Non-Conforming 1370L
Language:
English
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Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, the fantastic tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. At first, he is shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the alarmed residents are only six inches high. His second voyage takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, where the people are sixty feet high. Further adventures bring Gulliver to an island that floats in the sky and to a land where horses are endowed...

7. The horse and his boy

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Author:
Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963
Series:
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia volume 5
The Chronicles of Narnia
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia volume 3
Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
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3 stars
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Bree, a talking horse, and Shasta, a young boy, are joined by the four English children and Aslan to help save Narnia from invasion.

8. The book woman of Troublesome Creek: a novel

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Author:
Richardson, Kim Michele
Series:
Book woman of Troublesome Creek volume 1
Language:
English
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4.5 stars
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"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...

9. The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

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Author:
Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963
Series:
Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
Chronicles of Narnia volume 1
The Chronicles of Narnia
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

10. True colors: a novel

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Author:
Hannah, Kristin
Series:
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Lexile measure:
770L
Language:
English
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3.2 stars
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Despairing of receiving their critical father's love, Winona occupies herself in books and dreams, while Vivi Ann makes a fateful decision to follow her heart instead of dutifully fulfilling their father's ambitions.

11. The Velveteen Rabbit

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Author:
Williams, Margery
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 1050L
Language:
English
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Rediscover the beloved classic tale of love and belonging, reimagined with immersive and quirky illustrations! Written by Margery Williams and illustrated by Holli Conger. Step into the enchanting world of "The Velveteen Rabbit," where love transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. In this timeless classic by Margery Williams Bianco, now illustrated and brought to life with whimsy and charm by Holli Conger, readers of all ages embark on a journey...

12. Animal farm

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Author:
Orwell, George, 1903-1950
Series:
Everyman's library volume 150
HBJ modern classic
Lexile measure:
1170L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon. According to Orwell, the fable...

13. Half broke horses: a true-life novel

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Author:
Walls, Jeannette
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English
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4.5 stars
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Lily Casey Smith grows up breaking horses with her father and leaves home at fifteen to ride five hundred miles in order to teach in a frontier town before encountering various difficulties, marrying a rancher, and speaking out against prejudice in various parts of the U.S.

14. The adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Oxford world's classics
First Avenue Classics
Greenwich House classics library
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Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
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4.4 stars
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...

15. The glassmaker

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Author:
Chevalier, Tracy
Series:
Thorndike Press large print top shelf
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English
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"In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass--but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague rearing its head over Venice...

16. The small and the mighty: twelve unsung Americans who changed the course of history, from the founding to the civil rights movement

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Author:
McMahon, Sharon
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history's...

17. Hidalgo

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Publisher:
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
Burbank, CA
Language:
English
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East Hampton Adult DVD
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In the 1890's Frank T. Hopkins, a former U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider who is haunted by memories of what he saw at the battle of Wounded Knee, and his mustang Hidalgo, are performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, billed as the greatest horse and rider the West has ever known. This leads them to be invited to run in the 3,000 mile endurance race across the Middle Eastern desert, the Ocean of Fire, by one of the leading Arabian Sheiks. The race soon...

18. Seabiscuit: an American legend

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Author:
Hillenbrand, Laura
Series:
Ballantine reader's circle
G.K. Hall large print nonfiction
Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success...

19. The black stallion

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Series:
Criterion collection volume 765
Language:
English
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East Hampton Juvenile DVD
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An adaptation of Walter Farley's classic children's novel, in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse. After surviving together, they develop a bond and begin training to race once they are rescued.

20. The Aeneid

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Author:
Virgil
Series:
Dover Thrift Editions
Mentor classic
Penguin classics deluxe edition
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Language:
English
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"A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil's Aeneid restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of the west. For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas' dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas' heroic journey...
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