Books with title The Most Beautiful Horse in the World

"Seven-year-old Juan lives in Guatemala, a place of stunning beauty and grim economic reality. Abandoned by his mother, Juan lives with his grandmother and shines shoes. He passionately wants to attend school, but fears Grandmother will say no. Finally gathering his courage, he is surprised when she not only agrees to send him to school but also chides him about the importance of standing up for himself. Juan tells this bittersweet story, which reads smoothly and powerfully on several levels, with warmth and dignity."--Booklist.

Grandma is coming for dinner, and Annie wants to be the most beautiful kid in the world. But she doesn't feel beautiful in the scratchy dress and droopy tights Mama's picked out for her, so she makes a few minor adjustments. "Ericsson has a canny appreciation of the girl's wish to look genuinely stunning. The witty Meddaugh is an ideal collaborator, her cartoons capturing the haphazard get-up and the gleam in Annie's eyes."--Publisher's Weekly.

"Seven-year-old Juan lives in Guatemala, a place of stunning beauty and grim economic reality. Abandoned by his mother, Juan lives with his grandmother and shines shoes. He passionately wants to attend school, but fears Grandmother will say no. Finally gathering his courage, he is surprised when she not only agrees to send him to school but also chides him about the importance of standing up for himself. Juan tells this bittersweet story, which reads smoothly and powerfully on several levels, with warmth and dignity."--Booklist.

Cara is crazy about horses, but she knows she will never be able to afford one of her own. So it’s a dream come true when she’s hired to take care of the beautiful horse Lucas, whose owner is about to leave for college. Before long, Cara starts bringing home trophies and ribbons, and it’s clear she and Lucas are a winning team. Then Lucas’s owner loses interest in horses and sells Lucas to a family with no experience with, or love of, horses. Her new enemy Vanessa, the older daughter, forbids Cara even to ride Lucas. What can Cara do? If she rides Lucas, she may put him in terrible danger. But if she doesn’t, her heart might break . . .

Cara is crazy about horses, but she knows she will never be able to afford one of her own. So it’s a dream come true when she’s hired to take care of the beautiful horse Lucas, whose owner is about to leave for college.Before long, Cara starts bringing home trophies and ribbons, and it’s clear she and Lucas are a winning team. Then Lucas’s owner loses interest in horses and sells Lucas to a family with no experience with, or love of, horses. Her new enemy Vanessa, the older daughter, forbids Cara even to ride Lucas. What can Cara do? If she rides Lucas, she may put him in terrible danger. But if she doesn’t, her heart might break . . .

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Excerpt from The Story of Beautiful Jim Key: The Most Wonderful Horse in All the WorldThis evening the good Sheik's heart was heavy and anger knitted the furrows deeper in his brow. A trusted stranger had stolen the Mother Queen of Horses, Lauretta, and though a full moon had passed, no word yet had been heard from his beloved, and all over Arabia mutterings of anger were heard, even some saying he himself had sold her, and the false story was going on the winds of the evening.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Juan lives in Guatemala, in the mountains. It is a poor but beautiful place, with volcanoes rising from the shores of a blue lake, and flocks of brilliantly plumed wild parrots living in the trees.Juan is a shoe-shine boy. Although he’s only seven years old, he works hard every day to earn his keep. He has lived with his grandmother since his parents abandoned him.But Juan dreams of other things. Most of all, he longs to go to school like other children his age . . .