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1) Born to trot
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Marguerite Henry horseshoe library volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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As he learns about the famous Hambletonian, sire of the American trotter, young Gib White dreams of some day having his own filly become a champion trotter.
2) Motor mouth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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At the start of this cool comedy thriller from bestseller Evanovich, her second novel to star Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby (after 2004's Metro Girl), Barney and her unfaithful NASCAR racing honey, Sam Hooker, find themselves in trouble after discovering the shrink-wrapped body of ruthless businessman Oscar Huevo in a rival racer's car hauler. The pair must pull together to protect a high-tech gizmo that can revolutionize racing-and save their lives....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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A boy is entrusted to attend the birth, train, and drive a blood bay colt that is the great hope of an aging reinsman who refuses to be reconciled to the fact that sulky-racing has moved from the county fair to the big night time, moneymaking raceways.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
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Seabiscuit was an unlikely champion. He was a rough-hewn, undersized horse with a sad little tail and knees that wouldn't straighten all the way. At a gallop, he jabbed one foreleg sideways, as if he were swatting flies. For two years, he fought his trainers and floundered at the lowest level of racing, misunderstood and mishandled, before his dormant talent was discovered by three men.
One was Red Pollard, a failed prizefighter and failing jockey...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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A comic novel of three young men who "borrow" an automobile for a hilarious journey in Memphis. Wild humor and frenetic action do not, however, obscure the development of moving and tender human relationships and moral insights into human conduct.
9) Wild horses
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Once a blacksmith, now famous and respected as a newspaperman, Valentine Clark knows everyone who is anyone in the racing world. Aged, confused, blind and dying, he harbors a daunting secret that he is desperate to be rid of.
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A racing accident resulting in a frightened horse and an injured driver leads Alec Ramsey and Henry Dailey to try harness racing, working a son of the Black toward the Hambletonian.
12) Kentucky rich
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Kentucky series (Fern Michaels) volume 1
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The return of Nealy Coleman to SunStar, the home she fled thirty years earlier with her illegitimate child Emmie, has serious repercussions for Nealy's brothers Pyne and Rhy, as well as all the other Thorntons and Colemans associated with the thoroughbred horse farm, including Nealy herself
13) Black Gold
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Series
Marguerite Henry horseshoe library volume 007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
No one thinks much of Black Gold because he is so small. But Jaydee sees something special in his eyes. He knows that Black Gold would be a winner if only he were the horse’s rider! Finally, Jaydee gets his wish, and Black Gold grows strong and fast under his careful hands. Soon it will be time for the most important race in America. Do they have what it takes to win? Black Gold’s inspirational story proves that the power of love and dedication...
14) The outcasts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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In a society that values strength over intellect, Hal's ingenuity, combined with the fact that his mother was a slave, sets him apart from other boys his age. As he and his peers compete in training designed to test their strength and endurance, Hal realizes he is not the only outcast and struggles to carve out a place for himself.
15) Man o' War
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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A fictionalized biography of the American race horse who won twenty of twenty-one races, told by a stable boy who grew up with the great horse.
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In order to raise money to rebuild a one-hundred-thousand-dollar barn, destroyed by fire, Alec returns to racing the Black.