Hoofbeats — by Kathleen Duey

Nine-year-old Lara is the daughter of the r?-the leader of her cattle-raising clan. While she spends her days tending to the cattle, her heart lies with her beloved gray mare. When Lara goes to the highlands to set the cattle out to graze, she finds ...

In 1773, ten-year-old Silence longs to own a beautiful snow-white mare named Lily, but as tensions between the colonists and the British heat up, she fears she may lose Lily forever, especially when she stumbles upon a dangerous secret. Simultaneous....

The second book in the Hoofbeats series�focusing on Lara!

Nine-year-old Lara is the daughter of the the leader of her cattle-raising clan. While she spends her days tending to the cattle, her heart lies with her beloved gray mare. When Lara go...

Nine-year-old Lara is the daughter of the r?-the leader of her cattle-raising clan. While she spends her days tending to the cattle, her heart lies with her beloved gray mare. When Lara goes to the highlands to set the cattle out to graze, she finds ...

Nine-year-old Lara is the daughter of the r?-the leader of her cattle-raising clan. While she spends her days tending to the cattle, her heart lies with her beloved gray mare. When Lara goes to the highlands to set the cattle out to graze, she finds ...

• May-2004
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Orphaned at age six and taken in by a heartless couple, nine-year-old Katie Rose spends her days doing chores and dreaming of going west to find her Uncle Jack. Then Mr. Stevens brings home an unbroken Mustang, and Katie's world changes. Katie is dra...

• May-2004
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ON THE OREGON TRAIL Katie Rose desperately wants to travel west to Oregon in search of her only surviving family member, her uncle. So when she learns that Mr. Stevens, her caretaker, plans to join a wagon train going west -- without her or her belo...

• May-2004
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The third book in the Hoofbeats series focusing on Katie!Katie knows she has come too far to give up. Taken under the Kylers' wing, she stays close to the Mustang and clings to her dream of finding her uncle. Then a particularly bad river crossi...

• May-2004
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The fourth book in the Hoofbeats series focusing on Katie!With trepidation, Katie continues Westward with the Kylers. The mountainous terrain makes for difficult traveling, and they arrive in Oregon shortly before the winter snows hit. While the Kyle...

• Apr-2008
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A Place to Call Home The year is 1875, and twelve-year-old orphan Margret and her sister, Libby, are living with the kind Mrs. Fredriksen in her sod house in rural Littleton, Colorado. Margret would be happy to stay forever; but she knows that Libby,...