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Does anyone remember a book about a girl who hides a horse named Highboy in an abandoned stable next to her house? She works to buy his food and doesn’t tell her parents about him?[/QUOTE]
This is The Secret Horse, by Marion Holland. I had read it in my 4th grade classroom, then hunted it down a couple of years ago and bought a copy. I still like it. 
love dick francis now… but how about “the horse of hurricane hill”…and of course all the black stallion/island stallion…
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Of course the other major horsey book I read as a teen was “Riders” by Jilly Cooper Now that one stuck with me for a long time… it was a real eye opener for many reasons when I read it at 14!!! :winkgrin:[/QUOTE]
I’m with you there Yikes! I think I read it at about 14 too.
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This is The Secret Horse, by Marion Holland. I had read it in my 4th grade classroom, then hunted it down a couple of years ago and bought a copy. I still like it. :)[/QUOTE]
Thank you. I know my daughter would love to read it, but I couldn’t remember much about it since I’d read it about 30 years ago.
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Thank you. I know my daughter would love to read it, but I couldn’t remember much about it since I’d read it about 30 years ago.[/QUOTE]
I forgot about that book until that description, too… now I’m going to see if I can get a copy. (:
Keeping Barney by Jessica Haas
I liked it because it was realistic in that the main character go a horse, which had been her dream, but then the horse turns out to be a bit of a character.
http://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Barney-Jessie-Haas/dp/0688158595
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OMG, I can’t believe anybody else remembers Afraid to Ride. I still have it around here somewhere…does the Horse Box by Thelwell count as a “horse book”? It had 4 different Thelwell books in it, including my favorite Angels on Horseback…
I love the Thelwell Books!!
I read everything by Walter Farley and Marguerite Henry - My Friend Flicka - National Velvet and Black Beauty too.
There was also a show on t.v. about a horse - was that Fury???
I can’t remember the writer’s name but in the last couple of years she has put out a couple of books - one of the is called Flying Changes. I really liked those too.
I remember it as Harlequin Hullabaloo. I loved that book.
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I love the Thelwell Books!!
I read everything by Walter Farley and Marguerite Henry - My Friend Flicka - National Velvet and Black Beauty too.
There was also a show on t.v. about a horse - was that Fury???
I can’t remember the writer’s name but in the last couple of years she has put out a couple of books - one of the is called Flying Changes. I really liked those too.[/QUOTE]
Sara Gruen wrote Flying Changes and Riding Lessons, though I don’t remember which one came first. I liked those books.
Does anyone remember the writer that wrote mysteries in the h/j world? I read them when I was a teen, later 90’s, I always wondered if she wrote anymore because I loved those books.
I am now also a Dick Francis fan, and it’s so cool that theres LOTS and LOTS of books for me to read! Even though there isn’t much about horses in most of them, they really pull you in!
The Blaze books. C.W. Anderson
Misty and series. Marguarite Henry.
The Black Stallion and series. Walter Farley.
Sam Savitt - an awesome horse illustrator of my childhood.
ditto…double ditto in fact…there weren’t any “series” book that I recall…(we were a pretty poor little mountain county) but we did have about 25 years of the TWH Bluebook…:>
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Oh, I LOVED those books too (I grew up in England). I didn’t ride but was horse crazy & thought Jill was just amazing! :lol: Now, whenever I re-read them (sigh, yes at 41yrs old) I just think “wow, to be able to learn to jump that quickly and find a barn in your back yard!” :lol: :lol:
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I forgot to add Black Stallion and the Marguerite Henry books. My trainer wanted to know if anybody else remembers “Blaze Finds the Trail”?
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I forgot to add Black Stallion and the Marguerite Henry books. My trainer wanted to know if anybody else remembers “Blaze Finds the Trail”?[/QUOTE]
That was one of the Billy and Blaze books, right? I read all of those. (:
I love this post! Between this and the other post about the good old days, I’m getting all nostalgic and I’m just 20! Lol. I read the Billy and Blaze books (my little brothers loved those too!), I was addicted to Thoroughbred (I’d always rave to my mom how realistic it was, because things went wrong, haha), read all of the pony pals books (anyone remember those little trading cards that came in them?), then of course the saddle club. Also, the misty books, justin morgan had a horse, and king of the wind (which I forgot about till now!). Also this other one that was a true story about a girl who had polio as a kid and had to wear a body cast and then adopted a mustang or something? Anyone remember that? 
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Also this other one that was a true story about a girl who had polio as a kid and had to wear a body cast and then adopted a mustang or something? Anyone remember that? [/QUOTE]
I suspect this is “Tall and Proud” by Vian Smith.
Does anyone recall a book about a jumper (I think) named Corinthian (I think). My friend brings this book up occasionally in conversation, and wishes he could find it. Short of calling the Hannibal High School (NY) librarian (and I doubt the one working in 1975 is still there), I don’t know what to do.
Corinthian? Show jumper? Ring any bells?
I thought it would be a cool Christmas gift. Hmmm.
I swear my (and all my friends) favorite book as a child was Jane Marshall Dillon’s “School For Young Riders.”
A fictionalized account of a young Kathy Kusner, it had as much adventure as it did fact. We LOVED all the stories in it (and DREAMED of foxhunting like they did in the book) and practiced all the exercises in it.
OH- and we imitated all the photos in it. I can still remember grinning at my girlfriend Theresa saying “Pair jumping minus tack is fun, too!.”
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I suspect this is “Tall and Proud” by Vian Smith.[/QUOTE]
Or “Dark Sunshine” by Dorothy Lyons–a girl with polio who finds a buckskin mustang mare trapped in a canyon, gets her out, tames her and takes up endurance riding. (:
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That was one of the Billy and Blaze books, right? I read all of those. (:[/QUOTE]
I’ll have to ask him, I didn’t remember the book myself. Of course, he is a couple of years OLDER than I am :winkgrin: (for the record, I’m 48).
Another question: how many of you bought/gave your favorite horse books to your kids/nieces/nephews?
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