18 books like Taming the Star Runner

What to read after Taming the Star Runner — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 1945 · ★ 4.3 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging 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 life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.Merriam-Webster (1995). "Black Beauty". Merriam Websters Encyclopedia of Literature. The novel became an immediate best-seller,… Shares: Horses, Children's fiction

Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 1890 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging An Apple Books Classic edition.With Black Beauty, author Anna Sewell hoped to make people care about the cruel abuses that cab horses were suffering—bought and sold, whipped, and worked to exhaustion. Sewell tells the story from the perspective of Beauty, a horse who lived an idyllic life on a farm in the English countryside until he was sold and forced to pull cabs in London. In this way, she… Shares: Horses, Children's fiction

Graceling Kristin Cashore · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 406p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug. She never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po. She never expects to learn the… Shares: Uncles, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 1905 · ★ 4.0 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging 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 life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.Merriam-Webster (1995). "Black Beauty". Merriam Websters Encyclopedia of Literature. The novel became an immediate best-seller,… Shares: Horses, Children's fiction

Dark fire (Last Dragon Chronicles #5) Chris D'Lacey · 2009 · ★ 4.1 · 580p · ≈ 19h · Moderate With the Earth on the brink of recolonisation by dragons, David Rain is sent on an important mission: to seek out and destroy a trace of dark fire, the deadliest force in the universe. But with success could come a terrible price, the sacrifice of a beloved clay dragon. How much does the life of one small dragon count? Shares: Authorship, Authors, Children's fiction

Pleasing the Ghost Sharon Creech · 1996 · ★ 3.6 · 89p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Ever since his father died, Dennis has been seeing ghosts. Lots of ghosts. They blow in on the breeze, visit for a while, and fly off again. But one night the ghost of his Uncle Arvie floats in the window. And Arvie wants to do more than chat. Together, they find a lost love letter, finish a special painting, and dig up buried treasure — all for Arvie's widow, Julia. Dennis loves having his uncle… Shares: Uncles, Children's fiction

Skulduggery Pleasant Derek Landy · 2006 · ★ 4.2 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course). Oh yeah. And dead. Then there's his sidekick, Stephanie. She's...well, she's a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out..."So you won't keep anything from me again? "He put his hand to his… Shares: Uncles, Children's fiction

A Whisper of Horses [Paperback] Zillah Bethell Zillah Bethell · 2017 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In a post-apocalyptic Great Britain, after her mother's death Serendipity, about twelve, leaves Lahn Dan and teams up with an orphan, Tab, hoping to find horses surviving somewhere. Shares: Horses, Children's fiction

The Reappearance of Rachel Price Holly Jackson · 2024 · ★ 4.1 · 443p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead. The case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. But then Rachel Price reappears, and… Shares: Young Adult, Children's fiction

Konek-gorbunok P. P. Ershov · 1834 · ★ 4.2 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Children's poem about a young farmer who with the help of his magical horse becomes Tsar of Russia. Shares: Horses, Authors

The girl who loved wild horses Paul Goble · 1978 · ★ 3.8 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free. Shares: Horses, Children's fiction

The Secret at Shadow Ranch Carolyn Keene · 1931 · ★ 4.0 · 203p · ≈ 6h · Challenging While staying at a ranch in Arizona, Nancy Drew becomes involved in a mystery surrounding a mistreated child. Shares: Ranches, Children's fiction

Who's Your Mummy? Robert Lawrence Stine · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate A Tomb With a View! Abby and Peter are staying with Uncle Jonathan in an eerie old village. Their uncle knows a lot about Egypt, and his living room even looks like an ancient tomb. Do other secrets lurk inside the house? MUM's the word! From Mummies to Dummies! Next, Abby and Peter will get all WRAPPED up in a terrifying mystery. Slappy the Dummy and other villains have been sighted in… Shares: Uncles, Children's fiction

The Faithful Friend Robert D. San Souci · 1995 · ★ 4.1 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique. Shares: Uncles, Children's fiction

Smoky, the cow horse Will James · 1926 · ★ 3.9 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age. Shares: Horses, Children's fiction

Creep From the Deep Robert Lawrence Stine · 2008 · ★ 3.7 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Swim at Your Own Risk! Billy and Sheena always expect adventure when they join their uncle, Dr. Deep aboard his hi-tech boat. What they don't expect is a treasure hunt leading to a 200-year-old sea captain... who refuses to stay dead! Wave Goodbye... Forever! Just when they think the tide is turning, Billy and Sheena accidentally tally dive into a dangerous mystery. A chilling surprise awaits… Shares: Uncles, Children's fiction

The Sword in the Tree Clyde Robert Bulla · 1956 · ★ 4.2 · 103p · ≈ 3h · Moderate After his father is reported dead and his wicked uncle takes over the castle, eleven-year-old Shan hides his father's precious sword and, after escaping with his mother, makes his way to King Arthur's court to seek help in winning back his inheritance. Shares: Uncles, Children's fiction

Midnight over Sanctaphrax Paul Stewart · 2001 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Twig has the caterbird tethered to his ship, the edgedancer, and is being led into a storm never seen before, on his way to find his father. Twig soon learns that this storm is the mother storm, and that the mythical place, called riverisse is real. And is torn between a simple yet complicated choice. Cut the anchor chain of sanctaphrax, and all of the edges knowledge, to save riverisse, or have… Shares: Young Adult, Children's fiction

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