Christine Pullein-Thompson

At the request of his gravely ill grandmother, twelve-year-old Ion Radu sets out to find his parents who had been taken as political prisoners years before, and he is caught up in the 1989 revolution in Romania.

My friend Flicka (an extract) / Mary O'Hara -- The wild heart (an extract) / Helen Griffiths -- Breed of giants (an extract) / Joyce Stranger -- [Silver Blaze]( / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Black Beauty (an extract) / Anna Sewell -- Bellerophon / L.S. Hyde -- Horse in the house (an extract) / William Corbin -- Banks and Morocco / Ruth Manning-Sanders -- The ghost in the top meadow / Christine Pullein-Thompson -- Strider: the story of a horse (an extract) / Leo Tolstoy -- A wayside adventure / C.S. Lewis -- Rescue / Walter Farley -- The rocking horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Behold, the Palio! / Marguerite Henry -- A man justly popular / R.D. Blackmore -- Follyfoot (an extract) / Monica Dickens -- "Oh, Cobweb, how could you?" / Josephine Pullein-Thompson -- Red morning / Joanna Cannan -- Warhorse (an extract) / Michael Morpurgo -- The Brogue / Saki.