Kathleen Duey: Hoofbeats

LARA and the GRAY MARE: A story in four volumes

Lara’s father is the king of an Irish mud-hut town in the year 1253. Ireland is at a crossroads, with its most ancient ways threatened by the customs of new immigrants. Lara’s family fights with neighboring kingdoms and the price of war is always high. The gray mare is stolen, but Lara locates her and saves her foal. To protect the little filly, Laura must find a kind of bravery she didn’t know she had. Eventually, she realizes that she wants a life very different than the one she was born into. Together Lara and her filly do what they must to survive the complicated and ruthless world they live in. And together, they find a place to be safe.

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Margret and Flynn:
Margret and her sister are orphans in Colorado in 1873. In order to stay together, they have spent their whole lives running. Now, Margret has found a home and a horse to love, and she wants to stay. Her sister is afraid to….

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Silence and Lily:
In the turbulent times before the American Revolution, Silence is torn between loyalty to her family and her respect for her brother. Lily, a white mare Silence has come to love, is being abused by a stable boy. Or so it seems…

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KATIE and the MUSTANG: A story in four volumes

Katie is an orphan. Mr. And Mrs. Stevens have taken her in, but not because they want a daughter to love—they want a house-servant. Whenever she can, Katie sneaks out to the barn, where she can cry without being scolded. When Mr. Stevens buys a mustang, he thinks the horse is trained. It isn’t. It has been fed a poisonous weed to make it weak and sick. Two days later, it is a dangerous wild animal again. Katie stays away from its stall at first. But she feels sorry for the trapped horse and a fragile trust grows between them. Their journey together is long and hard—and leads them both home.

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