From award-winning science writer Seymour Simon comes a completely revised and updated edition of Horses, w ith brand-new full-color photographs. Readers will learn how horses came to be domesticated, how to distinguish different breeds, the important roles horses have served throughout history, and more. From stallions and mares and?Clydesdales to Palominos, this is sure to be a hit with horse lovers and animal lovers everywhere! This updated edition...

Meg loves horses and has the good luck to move to the country where they live. Her and her new friend Jill feed, groom, and play with the horses and make a plan so it doesn't end.

Explains how to choose, understand, handle, feed, groom, shelter and pasture, and care for the health of a horse.

Discusses the interaction between people and horses, the horse as a social animal, its intelligence, abilities to communicate, athletic abilities, and physical evolution.

Based on a true story, "Second Chances" is the uplifting tale of a little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after a car crash.

Shell-shocked after losing a foot during his tour in Afghanistan, Captain Tom Forsyth returns to his estranged mother's house. His mother has always put horses first and family last. But now she's being blackmailed for a hefty sum every week and being forced to make her horses lose. Using the skills he honed in the military, Tom sets out to find and defeat a hidden enemy before his mother's reputation is ruined, and he ends up back in the crossfire....

An all-new Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader featuring the characters from Nickelodeon's Corn & Peg! An all-new Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader featuring Nickelodeon's Corn & Peg! Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Peg and Corn are inseparable best buddies who love to make their home, Galloping Grove, a better...

"...[T]he story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York--Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul--who wonder what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation. The story illuminates their...

The film is based on the true story of a Jack Russell puppy and a miniature horse who became friends while overcoming setbacks.

Publisher Annotation: The sky is white, the air is cold, and snowflakes are falling, tickling Bramble?s back. By bedtime, Maggie and her family are ready for the storm: they?ve shopped for supplies, covered Bramble?s hay with a tarp, and filled the bathtub with extra water. But Bramble is too excited to sleep; she wants to be out in the white, wild world. Luckily for Bramble, she has a shaggy coat to keep her warm. And luckily for Maggie and her family...