Tough Trails
Tough Trails
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Annotation: Soft-hearted Ambrose replaces an injured pack horse with a horse too old to function in the mountains and might have to sell her to the meat buyers anyway unless a miracle happens.
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #4717765
Format: Paperback
Special Formats: High Low High Low
Publisher: Orca Books
Copyright Date: 2003
Edition Date: 2003 Release Date: 09/01/03
Pages: 108 pages
ISBN: 1-551-43271-4
ISBN 13: 978-1-551-43271-7
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2003105880
Dimensions: 18 cm.
Language: English
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Word Count: 14,342
Reading Level: 4.2
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.2 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 72903 / grade: Upper Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:3.3 / points:6.0 / quiz:Q34389
Lexile: HL620L
Guided Reading Level: U
Fountas & Pinnell: U
The horses' iron shoes scraped, metal against solid stone. Slowly they struggled upward, legs bent, lungs wheezing. Society Girl's halter rope tightened in my hand. I looked back. The old mare was really having problems.
    Groaning, she put her head down and lurched over one of the big rocks, her shoes slipping.
    Then, as though in slow motion, she crumpled to the ground.

Excerpted from Tough Trails by Irene Morck
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When Ambrose is forced to sell his horse because of an injury, he must find a new animal that can handle the rigors of the mountains while packing for his uncleís trail-riding outfit. To save an old lady's beloved companion from the meat-buyers, Ambrose buys a horse who would be better off in retirement than climbing the treacherous trails of the Rocky Mountains. The horse, Society Girl, almost dies on the trail, and Ambrose realizes she will have to go back to the meat-auction. When Ryan, a misbehaving ten-year-old, takes the horse and disappears into the teeth of a dangerous mountain storm, Ambrose and Janice are forced to work together to find him. Will the young boy and the elderly horse survive a vicious hailstorm? Will Society Girl prove that she has a future? Will Ambrose be able to save the old horse from certain death?


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