Black Beauty vs Taming the Star Runner: Which Should You Read?

Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 1945 ★★★★☆ 4.3 328 pages · ≈ 6 h 04 m · Moderate

Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was written from a horse as main characters perspective. She wrote it in the last years of her…

Taming the Star Runner S. E. Hinton · 1988 ★★★★☆ 3.9 181 pages · ≈ 3 h 21 m · Light

“His boot felt empty without his knife in it.”

Sent to live with his uncle after a violent confrontation with his stepfather, sixteen-year-old Travis, an aspiring writer, finds life in a small Oklahoma town confining until he meets an eighteen-year-old horse trainer…