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Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

Ages 9–12 Reading age 10 Novel Set in the past movingthoughtful

A horse tells his own life: kind stables and cruel ones, a broken knee, the London cabs, and the people who decided what happened to him.

A story about animals, moving and thoughtful in tone. We would put it with children of 9–12, and at a reading age of about 10 for reading alone.

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