Walter Farley
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Celebrate The Black Stallion’s seventy-fifth anniversary with four of the Black’s greatest adventures!
From the moment Alec first saw the Black Stallion, he knew they were destined to be together. But can he truly trust a stallion whose beauty matches his wild spirit?
Follow four of Walter Farley’s most thrilling tales of adventure in this boxed set. Each of these classic tales presents racing...
From the moment Alec first saw the Black Stallion, he knew they were destined to be together. But can he truly trust a stallion whose beauty matches his wild spirit?
Follow four of Walter Farley’s most thrilling tales of adventure in this boxed set. Each of these classic tales presents racing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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When Steve Duncan is asked to go on an archeological search on a remote Caribbean island, he never imagines the stallion he will find there. But the giant horse is unapproachable, showing nothing but fear and fury towards people. When the stallion gets caught in quicksand, can Steve get close enough to save the wild horse?
Author
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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The Black Stallion is the fastest horse in America and he and his jockey, Alec Ramsay, are training for a big race. Suddenly there comes a new challenger: Flame! An unproven racer, the Island Stallion can run like the wind and his jockey, Steve Duncan, knows that Flame will give the Black the race of his life. But what neither Steve nor Alec know, is that these two stallions have met before, and they hate each other.
Author
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Alec Ramsey has fled Hopeful Farm in order to alleviate his grief over Pam’s sudden death. He and the Black are aimlessly wandering through the Arizona desert when they hear an amazing Native American legend: The end of the world is near, but help is promised from a rider on a black horse.
Alec shrugs off the wild tale–until disaster strikes from the sky. Suddenly the fate of an entire native tribe is in his hands . . . and the mighty...
Alec shrugs off the wild tale–until disaster strikes from the sky. Suddenly the fate of an entire native tribe is in his hands . . . and the mighty...
Author
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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While waiting for a delayed airplane, old Henry Dailey, the Black's trainer, tells young Alec Ramsay a story of his own youth, travelling with his brother, Bill. Bill Dailey's talent as a horse-whisperer was unmatched in the days before the automobile and young Henry tells of an unscrupulous con-man who mistreats horses into behaving temporarily. Bill is determined to show that the man is a fraud, but can he unmask the con without getting hurt?Walter...
Author
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"She’ll never be a racehorse,” murmurs the crowd as Black Minx is led into the sales ring. But Alec Ramsay thinks differently and buys the Black’s first filly to train her for the Kentucky Derby. But Black Minx, like her sire, has a mind of her own. This fast-paced racing story follows a great horse’s journey through training and preliminary races to the opening gate at America’s most famous racetrack: Churchill...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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After the Black attacks another horse, Alec realizes that the once-wild horse needs more space and freedom, so they head out west to a huge ranch. But a terrible accident separates the two, leaving Alec with amnesia and the Black alone to reclaim the wild life to which he was born. As the Black struggles to survive, and as Alec struggles to remember who he is and his connection to the magnificent stallion in the canyon, a gripping adventure story...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Veteran harness race driver Jimmy Creech, an aging driver and trainer who is reluctant to accept that Standardbred harness racing has moved from the county fairs to the big night-time, moneymaking raceways, pins his comeback hopes on Bonfire, the Black Stallion's second colt. His dreams are threatened by ill health and his young apprentice Tom's inexperience. Jimmy hopes that the great Black Stallion has given his son the speed and will to win.
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Black stallion volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Although Satan has won the Triple Crown, Alec Ramsay still misses the Black. The upcoming International is the perfect opportunity for the inevitable race between the Black and his colt, Satan, but unexpected events put the horses in the path of a raging forest fire. Suddenly, the horses aren't racing for a cup ... they are racing for their lives!
17) Man o' War
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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A fictionalized biography of the American race horse who won twenty of twenty-one races, told by a stable boy who grew up with the great horse.
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Black stallion volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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While flying to a race, Alec Ramsay and the Black's plane crash-lands in the stormy Caribbean. Chance brings the Black to the hidden island home of the giant red stallion, Flame. Such a small island can only support one alpha male. But before the two can fight -- a fight that can only result in the death of one -- a new danger appears. Together, can the stallions defeat the deadly foe which threatens the lives of the entire herd of wild horses --...