I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade

I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
Author: Diane Wilson
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1402269536

A moving and heartfelt story about the lengths one would go to help their family When Oyuna was a baby, a horse accidentally crushed her foot, cursing her family with bad luck. Oyuna vows to restore good fortune to her family...but how? One fateful day, soldiers from the great Khan's army invade her village to steal horses and gather new soldiers. In hopes of bringing honor to her family, Oyuna courageously disguises herself as a boy and joins the soldiers on their quest. With only her horse and her cat to keep her company, Oyuna sets off on an amazing journey across deserts and mountains—a journey that will change her life forever. "No ordinary horse story...Horse lovers or not, readers will be riveted."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Ambitious and fast-moving."—New York Times

I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade

I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
Author: Diane L. Wilson
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1998
Genre: Fortune
ISBN:

Oyuna tells her granddaughter the story of how love for her horse enabled her to win a race and bring good luck to her family living in Mongolia in 1339.

Black Storm Comin'

Black Storm Comin'
Author: DIANE LEE WILSON
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1471103382

WANTED: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders. Willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. When Colton Wescott sees this sign for the Pony Express, he thinks he has the solution to his problems. He's stuck with his ma and two younger sisters on the wrong side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, with no way to get across. They were on the wagon train heading to California when Pa accidentally shot Colton and then galloped away. Ma is sick, and Colton needs money to pay the doctor. He'd make good money as a Pony rider. he also needs to get to California to deliver freedom papers to Ma's sister, a runaway slave. The Pony Express could get him there too... Does Colton have what it takes to be a Pony Express rider? And if so, will traveling the dangerous route over the mountains bring him closer to family, freedom, and everything he holds dear?

Twice Upon a Marigold

Twice Upon a Marigold
Author: Jean Ferris
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2009-04-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152066925

Full of zany humor, this sequel to "Once Upon a Marigold" continues the story of Christian and Marigold, who are living happily ever after now that Queen Olympia has gone--or has she?

Shadow Spinner

Shadow Spinner
Author: Susan Fletcher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2011-10-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442446811

Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day -- providing the story is interesting enough to capture his attention. After almost one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. And that is how Marjan's story begins.... It falls to Marjan to help Shahrazad find new stories -- ones the Sultan has never heard before. To do that, the girl is forced to undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, pulling tales from strangers and bringing them back to Shahrazad. But as she searches the city, a wonderful thing happens. From a quiet spinner of tales, Marjan suddenly becomes the center of a more surprising story than she ever could have imagined.

Runs With Horses

Runs With Horses
Author: Brian Burks
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152009946

Sixteen years old in 1886, Runs With Horses trains to become a warrior with Geronimo's band of Apaches in the American Southwest.

Becoming Ben Franklin

Becoming Ben Franklin
Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2021-08-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0823449459

In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in nearly the same spot but was greeted by cannons, bells, and a cheering crowd, now a distinguished statesman, renowned author, and world-famous scientist. Freedman's riveting story of how a rebellious apprentice became an American icon comes in an elegantly designed book filled with art and includes a timeline, source notes, bibliography, and index

The Horse and His Boy

The Horse and His Boy
Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

C. S. Lewis was a British author, lay theologian, and contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Horse and His Boy is the fifth book in The Chronicles of Narnia series of seven books.

The Ghost of Fossil Glen

The Ghost of Fossil Glen
Author: Cynthia DeFelice
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429930535

From beloved author Cynthia DeFelice, The Ghost of Fossil Glen marks the first installment in this gripping middle grade series featuring sixth-grader and ghost magnet Allie Nichols, who solves mysteries with the help of her friend Dub. Allie Nichols knows she's being pursued by a ghost. But her friend Karen calls her a liar and doesn't want to hear "stuff like that." It is Allie's old pal Dub who listens eagerly as Allie tells him about a voice that guides her safely down a steep cliff side, the face in her mind's eye of a girl who begs "Help me," and a terrible nightmare in which that girl falls to her death. Who is the girl? Is she the ghost? And what does the ghost want from Allie? As Allie discovers that her role is to avenge a murder, she also learns something about friendship, false and true, in this chilling tale from bestselling author Cynthia DeFelice.

Firehorse

Firehorse
Author: Diane L. Wilson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416915516

Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.