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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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Seabiscuit was a great horse, perhaps the best ever, running in one of the worst decades ever, the Great Depression, bringing excitement and pleasure to millions of Americans when they needed those emotions desperately. This is the true story of how three men and a great racehorse captivated the world.
Author
Publisher
McPherson & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Lord of Misrule follows five characters -- scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain -- through a year and four races at Indian Mound Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia. Horseman Tommy...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris Parasis a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall--she's a curious filly--and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 27
Language
English
Description
Boston private investigator Spenser enters the dangerous world of horse racing when he is hired to oversee security for Hugger Mugger, a two-year-old colt destined to become the next Secretariat.
Author
Series
Kentucky volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nealy Coleman was only 17 and deathly ill when she took her baby, Emmie, and fled into a snowstorm before her father could carry out his threat to send her little girl to an orphanage. Fate guided them to Maud Diamond's stud farm, where Nealy's sad story and her talent for working with horses earned her a place in the old woman's heart and convinced Maud that Nealy alone could chose the right mare and stallion to produce the farm's third Kentucky...
8) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
153 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.
Author
Series
Kentucky volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The third and final volume in Michaels's Kentucky series finds Nealy Coleman Diamond facing her greatest challenge yet--to produce another Derby winner and repair the damage to her relationship with her daughter, Emmie.
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