This book recounts the adventures of a horse as he moves from life on a farm into the battles of World War I, the story of a friendship lasting through the toughest of tests. Through the eyes of the war horse, Joey, Michael Morpurgo tells this moving and powerful story of survival on the Western Front.
Thirteen-year-old foster kid Skye Nicholson has become an expert at being an angry, cold, and defensive teenager. After breaking more foster home placements than she cares to count, and committing numerous offenses, she's headed to her final resort --- juvenile detention. But after a court compromise, hope finds her through a beautiful sorrel quarter horse named Champ and the tough love of Tom and Eileen Chamber, who offer her another chance at their home at Keystone Stables. There she's introduced to a God who has the power to truly save her, no matter how much she thinks she's not worth saving.
This collection of stories, specially retold for children, were once the daily entertainment of the common people in Persia, India and Arabia. It includes the story of Aladdin and the enchanted lamp, the ebony horse and Khalifah the fisherman.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 8 October 2011
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Horse's Ass
Charlie Owen has captured exactly, the slightly dark, often cynical humour that exists or at least did exist in the Police Service. This book is both hysterically funny and yet deeply moving in almost equal measure. Whilst it is set in Manchester, it could I suspect, be set in almost any urban overflow in Britain and manages to cause the reader to empathise with every character, even the baddies.
