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Tasunka: A Lakota Horse Legend

By Donald F. Montileaux

The story of how the Native American Lakota first acquired the horse, and its influence on their way of life. The edition I own is bilingual: Lakota and English

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Horse Diaries: Yatimah

By Catherine Hapka

Arabian horse is orphaned and grows up to be prized war horse of Bedouin sheikh, told in first person by the horse. 6th book in a sixteen book series.

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Blood Red Horse

By K.M. Grant

12 yo son of an English lord grows up to join King Richard’s crusade in the Holy Land, along with his father and brother and a very special war horse. First in a trilogy

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Mr. Revere and I

By Robert Lawson

An account of Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride, as well as his many activities leading up to the American Revolution, as humorously told by his horse.

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Heroes, Incredible True Stories of Courageous Animals

By David Long

True short vignettes featuring animal war heroes

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Makoons

By Louise Erdrich

5th book, Omakayas and her family adapt to a new way of life among the plains Indians, learning to hunt buffalo, until they are pressured further west

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Chickadee

By Louise Erdrich

4th book introduces Omakayas twin sons, 8 yo. After Chickadee is kidnapped, family moves west to find him

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I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade

By Diane L. Wilson

12 yo Mongolian girl makes a sudden and spontaneous decision to disguise herself as a boy to ride with Kublai Kahn’s soldiers when they conscript her favorite horse

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Little Britches

By Ralph Moody

Autobiographical account of 8 yo boy moving with family to a Colorado cattle ranch. This is the first of eight books Moody wrote about his early life.

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Pony

By R.J. Palacio

12 yo boy embarks on a journey to find his kidnapped photographer father

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