Used Young Adult Fiction (Teenagers)
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Silver Star in Wild Horse Canyon - HB
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Silverhorse
"At that moment the horse turned its head and looked at her. No horse had such eyes...golden, with black slits for pupils. The eyes of a predator that hunts at night."
Smoke Screen Secret
Where, there's smoke, there's danger. When one actress is frightened away from filming 'Thoroughbred Fever', identical twins McKenna and Jade James agree to act her part and share the role.
Star In Danger
Will Christina ever see Star again? Christina Reese is worried. She's been taking care of Wonder's Star ever since his dam, Wonder, died.
Star's Chance
At last, Wonder's Star has begun to recover from the illness that halted his promising racing career so suddenly.
Star's Inspiration
It's Star's last strike ... Christina Reese has always known that Wonder's Star is special. But as the third race in the Triple Crown approaches, it's unclear whether Star is up to the challenge.
Stormy
It had started long ago, when her mother was still in their house. One awful afternoon, Stormy's dad had lifted her on to the big white mare and said, 'Ride. Ride till someone takes you in.'
Sun Horse Moon Horse
The thing that the old man had talked of had happened. And the night that had begun as a wedding feast ended as a ready-making for battle.
Swept Away!
Sheila McCarthy's an ordinary teenager plunged into a world of wizards, unicorns and magic! When her eccentric friend Dr Reit invents an amazing transporter into parallel worlds, Sheila accidentally falls through into the kingdom of Arren.
The Best-kept Secret - HB
Cecilia says merry-go-rounds are for little kids, but Jo feels there's something mysterious and not at all childish about the carousel that has appeared overnight in Marely Street.
The Black Stallion
Alex Ramsay was on the long voyage home from India, where his uncle had taught him the one thing in the world he had always wanted to do - ride a horse.
The Black Stallion
When the steamer Drake is shipwrecked off the Spanish coast, there are only two survivors. One is young Alec Ramsay. The other is the Black Stallion - wildest of all wild creatures - who saves Alec's life.
The Black Stallion
Alex Ramsay was on the long voyage home from India, where his uncle had taught him the one thing in the world he had always wanted to do - ride a horse.
The Black Stallion
The Black stands at the sea's edge, ears pricked forward, his black mane flowing in the wind.
The Boundary Riders
"The fascination in this book lies as much in the characters of the children themselves and the vivid description of life in the Australian bush as in the hair-raising adventures they enjoy there."
The Boundary Riders
"Please stick to the boundary fence", Mr Thompson had said. "You can't possibly take longer than a week, and you'll probably do it in three days..."
The Boundary Riders + The Family Conspiracy (reasonably sized print) - HB
THE BOUNDARY RIDERS - Bobby and Jane, with their cousin Vincent, set out on horseback to inspect the boundary fence posts surrounding the family property...
The Brumby - HB
The Brumby of this story was a wild Australian stallion, by chance born near the home of a lonely boy and capturing his immagination with such intensity that he could think and dream of nothing but one day building up a herd of sturdy silver brumbies.
The Fourteenth Summer (AKA The Haymeadow) - PB
When John is asked to spend the summer alone up in the haymeadow, everything changes. Alone that is, except forthe 6000 sheep in this care, two horses, four dogs, a visiting grizzly bear and a pack of coyotes.
The Free Traders - HB
Tom Gibons is still a pupil at Rye Grammer School when the story begins, but is already helping his father in the smuggling activities.
The Horse of Her Dreams - PB
Twelve-year-old Christina Reese is the luckiest girl in the world. She lives at the Whitebrook Farm with her dad, Mike, and her mother, Ashleigh Griffen, one of the most famous jockeys ever.
The Jinx of the Payrock Canyon - HB
"Hey, lookit! Somebody just bailed out of that plane!" As they observed a parachute falling to the ground, Jason Himrod and his buddy Doc could no longer hear the plane's engine; maybe it had crashed.
The Moon Stallion - PB
When the Purwells set out to explore the land of the real King Arthur, they find themselves caught up in a hunt for the Moon Stallion, a beautiful but dangerous beast without a mortal master.
The Nipper - PB
He had no need to give any order, the slightest pressure of his heels and they were off; and not forgetting for a moment the reason for his errance, the joy pulsing through The Nipper's body was transferred to his own, and they became one again.
The Smiling Madonna - HB
A holiday in Italy is an exciting adventure for fourteen year old Maria Sartori who is half Australian and half Italian. Rome is wonderful. Lucca is romantic and Siena's famous Palio horse race is wildly exciting.
The Snow Pony
Only Dusty can ride the Snow Pony. And no one but Dusty will trust her?
The Stirrup and the Ground - HB
Cathy still had a sneaking wish that being friends with Mark had not let her in for so much that was hard to accept. Why was life so unreasonable and so unfair?
The Thoroughbred
Things have always come easy for Maura - good looks, good grades and a real talent for horseback riding. So when she and her friend Jill start their summer at a horse farm, Maura decides she's going to win first prize in the annual horse show.
The Tin House
The only sure thing in his life is Sarah, his grandfather's horse who must win the Derby.
The Trail Drivers - HB
The story of the trail drive, its heat and dust, its boredom and battles, is vividly told by a master Western writer. No boy can fail to be enthralled by this dramatic and exciting book.
The White Horse is Running.
When Manach looses the unbroken white colt, newly-crowned Queen Finnglas sets off in desperate pursuit. An ancient law of the Summer Land decrees that wherever the white horse treads must be claimed for the Kingdom...
The Wild One - HB
Kit Hunter finds Colonel Hamden's moorland home sadly changed when she returns to Devon after her mother's death. Moor Grange is no longer a prosperous estate.
Thicker Than Water
It's been a long time since Amy has seen her father. Twelve long years have separated them, and she doesn't know if he could ever really be her father again.
Thunderhead
Thunderhead has the spirit of his grandsire, a wild stallion who stole mares and fought his rivals to the death. Is he too dangerous to be a racehorse?
Thunderhead - HB
The McLaughlin family and the horses of Goose Bar Ranch, made famous in My Friend Flicka, are again the leading figures of Thunderhead.
Thunderhead - Part 3
Ken McLaughlin takes Thunderhead to race at Saginaw Falls, but Thunderhead has ideas of his own. There is excitement in this, the third part of the Thunderhead story - and tears, too.
To Ride A Fine Horse - HB
The hero of this story of Australian pioneering days began life as a poor boy on an Irish farm. He dreamed and planned how one day he would make a better life for his family.
True Enough
When Ashley Grant shows up uninvited at Heartland, Amy is suspicious. Ashley has been anything but nice in the past, and now she is asking for a favour.
Twist of Gold - PB
Sean and Annie have one chance to escape the potato famine in Ireland, but they must leave their dying mother behind.
UJA02 - Race Against Time - HB
Meet the Girl Who Leads a Double Life. Cassie B. Jones becomes detective Cassandra Best when her wealthy friend, Alexandra Bennett, sends her a ticket to mystery and adventure...at the Kentucky Derby.
UMS - Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West
The Heavenly Horse is the Dancer, an Appaloosa stallion, first of all the horses in the Army of One Hundred and Five, guardian of the Courts of the Outermost West.
Winter Memories - PB
It's December, and Amy can't help but remember the last holiday she spent with her mother.
Winter Thunder
Crista likes Jeff Pallaci even if he is a little strange and a show-off. He's better than nothing, she decides. The two friends enjoy their winter days skating on the lake and riding Betsarama and Thunder, Mr. Wilkins' horses.
Wonder's Champion
Cindy McLean must help and train her colt through illness and injury.
Wonder's First Race
Is Wonder's racing career over before it begins? Against all odds, Ashleigh Griffen's favourite racehorse, Wonder, has come through training with flying colours.
Wonder's Victory
Ashleigh's determined to make her dreams come true...