16 must-read middle grade books like Sierra's Steeplechase (Thoroughbred, #8) by Joanna Campbell

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Sierra's Steeplechase (Thoroughbred, #8)

By: Joanna Campbell

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

There's no hope for Sierra . . . Every trainer at Whitebrook Farm has given up on Sierra. The sp…

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Cover of Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis

1. Justin Morgan Had a Horse

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Joel's face suddenly lit up as if he had thought of something for the first time. He spoke now to t… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horses
  • juvenile
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2. Seabiscuit: An American Legend

By: Laura Hillenbrand

4.22

Format: 457 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's an alternate cover edition here Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular … read more

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  • horses
  • animals
"The weather was clear, the track fast War Admiral broke first and finished last."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

"To pilot a racehorse is to ride a half-ton catapult. It is without question one of the most formidable feats in sport."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

"He grasped for hope in Emerson's vision of natural polarities, in which all things are balanced by their opposites—darkness by light, cold by heat, loss by gain."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

"There's more than one thing I can't do and there are a lot more things than that that you can't do or you wouldn't be in the newspaper business. You'd be a jockey and a scholar and a connoisseur of f…"

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Cover of The Black Stallion Mystery (The Black Stallion, #13) by Walter Farley

3. The Black Stallion Mystery (The Black Stallion, #13)

By: Walter Farley

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Someone's set a treacherous trap for Alec and his horse...   read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horses
  • juvenile
Cover of The Black Stallion's Sulky Colt (The Black Stallion, #10) by Walter Farley

4. The Black Stallion's Sulky Colt (The Black Stallion, #10)

By: Walter Farley

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Bonfire, the Black Stallion’s colt who is a champion harness racer, is in training for the biggest … read more

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  • childrens
  • horse racing
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horses
  • juvenile
Cover of The Black Stallion's Filly (The Black Stallion, #8) by Walter Farley

5. The Black Stallion's Filly (The Black Stallion, #8)

By: Walter Farley

4.12

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Black Minx has the strength and stamina to win the most famous horse race in the world, but she doe… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horses
  • juvenile
Cover of The Black Stallion Returns (The Black Stallion, #2) by Walter Farley

6. The Black Stallion Returns (The Black Stallion, #2)

By: Walter Farley

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In this, the second book in the series, the heart-stopping adventures of the Black Stallion continu… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horses
  • juvenile
Cover of The Black Stallion and the Girl (The Black Stallion, #18) by Walter Farley

7. The Black Stallion and the Girl (The Black Stallion, #18)

By: Walter Farley

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Hopeful Farm’s success has greatly increased Alec and Henry’s workload, and finally, Alec decides t… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horses
  • juvenile
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8. The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

4.88

Format: 242 pages,

The bells clang above plague-ridden London as Robin lies helpless, cold, and hungry. The great hous… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of The Island Stallion Races (The Black Stallion, #11) by Walter Farley

9. The Island Stallion Races (The Black Stallion, #11)

By: Walter Farley

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

More than anything, Steve Duncan dreams of racing his huge, wild stallion, Flame. The horse is untr… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horses
Cover of The Renegade (Phantom Stallion, #4) by Terri Farley

10. The Renegade (Phantom Stallion, #4)

By: Terri Farley

3.72

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

For the Phantom, there is only one girl.For Sam, there is only one horse. When an ambitious rodeo c… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horses
Cover of Stray (Shifters, #1) by Rachel Vincent

11. Stray (Shifters, #1)

By: Rachel Vincent

3.67

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

There are only eight breeding female werecats left... And I'm one of them. I look like an all-Ameri… read more

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Cover of My Friend Flicka (Flicka, #1) by Mary O'Hara, Dave Blossom

12. My Friend Flicka (Flicka, #1)

By: Mary O'Hara , Dave Blossom

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

It seems Ken can't do anything right. He loses saddle blankets and breaks reins...but then comes th… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horses

13. The Horse-Tamer (The Black Stallion, #14)

By: Walter Farley

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

While waiting for a delayed airplane, old Henry Dailey, the Black's trainer, tells young Alec Ramsa… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horses

14. King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

He was named "Sham" for the sun, this golden red stallion born in the Sultan of Morocco's stone sta… read more

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15. Origin (Lux, #4)

By: Jennifer L. Armentrout

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Daemon will do anything to get Katy back. After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather… read more

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16. Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

By: Jodi Picoult , Samantha van Leer

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a … read more

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17. The Black Stallion Challenged (The Black Stallion, #16)

By: Walter Farley

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

The Black Stallion is the fastest horse in America and he and his jockey, Alec Ramsay, are training… read more

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18. The Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt (The Black Stallion, #6)

By: Walter Farley

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

Young Tom Messenger has been taking care of Bonfire, the second son of the famous Black Stallion, s… read more

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Cover of The Long Winter (Little House, #6) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

19. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

20. The Secret of Shadow Ranch (Nancy Drew, #5)

By: Carolyn Keene , Mildred Benson

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nancy drew arrives in Phoenix, Arizona, eagerly looking forward to a fun-filled vacation at Shadow … read more

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21. Black Beauty

By: Gail Carson Levine , Anna Sewell

3.99

Format: 245 pages, Mass Market Paperback

As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, h… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horses
"It is good people who make good places."

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios."

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"I have heard men say that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing;"

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"he thought people did not value their animals half enough, nor make friends of them as they ought to do"

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

22. Son of the Black Stallion (The Black Stallion, #3)

By: Walter Farley

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

When Alec receives the Black Stallion's first son as a gift, he believes his dreams have come true,… read more

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23. Born to Trot

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Gibson can hear the beat of the horses' hooves against the track. Trotters are the world to him. Bu… read more

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24. Black Gold

By: Marguerite Henry

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

No one thinks much of Black Gold because he is so small. But Jaydee sees something special in his e… read more

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25. The Black Stallion and Satan (The Black Stallion, #5)

By: Walter Farley

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Satan has won the Triple Crown, yet Alec still misses the Black, who's living in Arabia with Sheikh… read more

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26. Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Amo… read more

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Cover of Spy School at Sea (Spy School, #9) by Stuart Gibbs

27. Spy School at Sea (Spy School, #9)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the ninth addition to the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley faces his nem… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) by Nghi Vo

28. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

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  • fiction
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

Cover of Whale Done (FunJungle, #8) by Stuart Gibbs

29. Whale Done (FunJungle, #8)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the eighth novel in New York Times bestselling Stuart Gibbs’s FunJungle series, Teddy Fitzroy re… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Big Book Of Favorite Horse Stories: Twenty-five Outstanding Stories by P.C. Braun

30. The Big Book Of Favorite Horse Stories: Twenty-five Outstanding Stories

By: P.C. Braun

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The black stallion and the red mare / Gladys Francis Lewis -- The first race (from High courage) /… read more

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  • horses
  • animals
  • fiction
Cover of Sierra's Steeplechase (Thoroughbred, #8) by Joanna   Campbell

31. Sierra's Steeplechase (Thoroughbred, #8)

By: Joanna Campbell

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

There's no hope for Sierra . . . Every trainer at Whitebrook Farm has given up on Sierra. The sp… read more

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  • childrens
  • teen
  • horse racing
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
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  • contemporary
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4.01

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4.00

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Ann Nolan Clark

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3.77

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Elizabeth Enright

3.75

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