Don't miss The Starlight Series, six gripping novels in all, about the mishaps and adventures that form a bond of love between two spirited creatures, a girl and a horse. Many of the issues and challenges that face today's youth are interwoven in Miranda's touching and unforgettable story, making it not only entertaining yet also educational. Beautiful cover art and line drawings enhance the story, making for a collector's item to be cherished for years to come. Production of a full length feature film has begun, slated for worldwide theatrical release date of 2005/2006. All combined this makes for a popular selling series for children and adults alike.

Starlight, Star Bright

Children's Books

Hill, Janet Muirhead

Animals

Raven Publishing Incorporated of Montana

Don't miss The Starlight Series, six gripping novels in all, about the mishaps and adventures that form a bond of love between two spirited creatures, a girl and a horse. Many of the issues and challenges that face today's youth are interwoven in Miranda's touching and unforgettable story, making it not only entertaining yet also educational. Beautiful cover art and line drawings enhance the story, making for a collector's item to be cherished for years to come. Production of a full length feature film has begun, slated for worldwide theatrical release date of 2005/2006. All combined this makes for a popular selling series for children and adults alike.

Starlight's Shooting Star

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

As Miranda Stevens turns thirteen, still caught up with horses, change is in the air as her mother is expecting a child, boys begin to show an interest in her, and seventeen-year-old Rose Marie is coming to stay with Laurie.

Starlight Comes Home

Action & Adventure

This rollicking yet suspenseful story of an unusually talented colt and the boys who embrace his uniqueness will have readers riveted from beginning to end. When the acrobatic palomino colt, bred to play polo, shows interest and aptitude for playing soccer goalkeeper, he is launched on a nationwide tour to promote the sport. His owner, 12-year-old Bobby Simpson, and his best friend, Ramon Aguilar accompany the colt in a luxury motor home with horse-quarters–the Fergus Special. The colt enjoys immediate fame, but not without peril.  Before long Rumble Smith, a rodeo stock-dealer, who doesn’t mind operating on the wrong side of the law, plots to abduct the world-renowned colt. He ropes his two bumbling ranch hands, Billy Joe Culpepper and Reiterate Johnson into helping him. Suspense, adventure, and lessons in loyalty and teamwork fill the pages of this book.  With a multi-cultural flavor and many interesting facts about famous U.S. ball parks and buildings, this is a book for the young and young at heart.

Fergus: The Soccer-Playing Colt

Peterson, Dan A.

Ten-year-old Danny Branahan refuses to believe news that would tear his world apart: news that his best friend, his dad, isn't coming home from Iraq, not now, not ever. Blaming himself and his horse, Dragon, for his father's demise, Danny rides on the back of his magical dragon to the war-torn desert far away, hoping to find his father and bring him home. Told through Danny's eyes, this timely book tells the story of a Montana ranching family surviving a casualty of war. Danny's vivid imagination intesifies his grief as it carries him through its stages to finally accept his father's death. It also gives him compassion and empathy for all of the many victims of the violence of war. By reaching out to his animals and learning to make new friends, Danny is able to reconnect with his family- and himself. Middle-grade adult readers will relate to Danny's journey through grief, guilt, and changing lifestyle.

Danny's Dragon

Janet Muirhead Hill

Parenting & Relationships

After her family relocates to the small country town of Lewisberg, Tennessee, Hilary Thompson, who has lived and thrived in the city the entire thirteen years of her life, feels as if her world has stopped turning. When she begins working at the local stables owned by Susan Collins, she meets Satan, a wild mustang stallion who belongs to Susan s rebellious son, Jeremy. Satan seems as lonely and out-of-place in his new surroundings as Hilary is in hers. When Jeremy fails to tame Satan, and his mother threatens to sell the horse, Hilary resolves to tame him. But can a girl who knows nothing about horses gain the trust of an aggressive mustang? And will she be able to keep her efforts a secret? Encouraged by a new friendship and suffering the aggravation of a new rival, Hilary spends increasingly more time with the stallion. As her affection for the mustang grows, she learns about horses, people, and the greatest lesson of all, unconditional love.

A Horse to Remember

Juliana Hutchings

United States

10-year-old Miranda Steven's adventures with Starlight, an injured two-year-old stallion, continue in this exciting sequel to Miranda and Starlight. Both the girl and the horse are called upon to exhibit loyalty, courage and endurance. This novel touches on issues of racial bias, non-traditional families, and death. It portrays a Montana blizzard, the lifestyle of western ranchers and dairymen, and the unique culture of a small rural school, as well as many exciting and unique adventures, such as when Miranda steals Starlight away and hides in a mountain cave in the midst of winter, because she believes his life is in danger. The real danger comes when Miranda and her friends, Christopher and Laurie, ride Chris's horse, Queen at the Montana Winter Fair in fierce competition with their classmates, unaware that a madman is seeking revenge against Miranda and Starlight.

Starlight's Courage, Revised Edition

Many of today's books for middle-grade children feature monsters and magic, but few relate to the unique challenges of growing up on a ranch in today's West. It is difficult to find a novel that models life lessons even as it keeps the reader engaged. Winnemucca author Jan Young does both in her first novel, The Orange Slipknot (Raven Publishing), geared especially to boys. A childish prank, Ben's GREAT IDEA, gets him into serious trouble with both his father and Fred, the crusty old cow boss on the Nevada ranch where Ben's dad cowboys. Ben must prove he can take responsibility for his actions. Even the reluctant reader will find in twelve-year-old Ben a hero to whom he can relate, and will be captivated by his adventures as he tries to walk in his father s footsteps. As Ben encounters stampeding horses, a mountain lion, and snow-covered hairpin-turns down a mountain road, the reader will learn about the culture of the buckaroos living and working in the Great Basin region of the western United States today.

The Orange Slipknot

Young, Jan

"Since the death of his grandparents two years ago, ten-year-old Kendall Ralston has been moved from one town to another with his father. Lonely and missing his mother and his twin sister whom he hasn't seen since age four, Kendall rescues a puppy who helps fill the void. When he learns his father is peddling drugs he leaves home and gets lost in a rain forest in western Washington. His rescue leads to placement in a foster home until it is demolished by a typhoon. One positive influence in Kendall's dreary life, a woman named named Lane, provides a home for him when his father is convicted and sent to prison. She shows him that he has choices for the way he lives his life.

Kendall's Storm

Ride the Jawbone weaves a compelling story of a gruesome murder and of a young lawyer who is called upon to defend the loathsome vagrant accused of the killing a young woman and throwing her body from the train. When no established attorney will defend the alleged murderer, the judge all but orders young T. C. Bruce, newly licensed to practice law, to undertake the task. While tracking the efforts of the young attorney to save his client from the hangman, the reader is transported back in time to central Montana, its ranching communities, and the famous Jawbone Railroad, as they existed at the turn of the twentieth century. Ride the Jawbone is a history lesson wrapped in a gripping mystery. Richard A. Harlow, without adequate financing is said to have jawboned the first railroad in central Montana into existence, a creation thereafter known only as the Jawbone. T. C. Bruce is the son of a rancher with a large spread near the newly created town of Two Dot. He loves ranching and is torn between his pleasing his father who wishes for him to take over the ranch and his mother who wants him to put his education to use. Two young women, different in every aspect, lend spice to the story. Lessons in the history and culture of place are most enjoyable when encountered in a story with rich characters and a challenging plot. Ride the Jawbone, a 225 page paperback original fills this bill effectively. Readers will learn much about the way of life of ranchers and other citizens of that place and time. The rich, eye-catching cover is crafted from a 1904 painting by R. E. DeCamp, which shows the Jawbone Railroad as it traveled through Sixteen Mile Canyon. A comprehensive discussion guide is included in the back of the book.

Ride the Jawbone

Moore, Jim

Genre Fiction

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