The beloved first book in the middle grade Phantom Stallion series about a girl, her horse, and the beauty of the American West returns with a brand-new. Is it Blackie grown up and gone wild-or the legendary phantom stallion? When Sam suddenly finds the fate of the horse resting in her hands, she has to be a real cowgirl, ready or not. Is it Blackie grown up and gone wildor the legendary phantom stallion When Sam suddenly finds the fate of the horse resting in her hands, she has to be a real cowgirl, ready or not. On a moonlit night, a mustang comes to Sam. She’s having trouble bonding with her new horse, Ace, the other ranchers treat her like the boss’s spoiled daughter, and Blackie has been missing since the day of Sam’s fateful accident.īut that’s just the beginning. She moved away two years ago to recover from a bad fall off her beloved mustang, Blackie, and she’s still not sure she can get back in the saddle. The classic theme of a girl and her horse is set against a backdrop of mustangs, tumbleweeds, and a West that's still Wild. On a moonlit night, a mustang comes to Sam. When thirteen-year-old Samantha returns home to her family’s cattle ranch in Nevada, she’s nervous. The beloved first book in the middle grade Phantom Stallion series about a girl, her horse, and the beauty of the American West returns with a brand-new, stunning cover and bonus material! Perfect for fans of Canterwood Crest and classic horse stories like Black Beauty and My Friend Flicka.
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It remains loyal to Willard’s “do everything” policy and advocates for the rights of women and the protection of home and family life around the globe. The WCTU was a founding member of the National Council for Women (1888), the International Council of Women (1893), and the United Nations Non-Governmental Organizations (1945). As president of the WCTU she adopted the motto “do everything” to summarize the mission of the WCTU: in addition to promoting individual abstinence from alcohol and prohibition laws, under her leadership, the organization embraced a wide-ranging policy agenda including dress reform, married women’s property laws, labor issues, and suffrage. Like others within the Holiness Movement ( A Brand Plucked from the Fire) she saw personal purity as the prerequisite to the cultural and spiritual sanctification that would mark the “new heavens and the new earth” spoken of in the Bible. A Methodist in the pietistic tradition, Willard believed true believers were marked by the purity of the lives in word and deed, not their performance of particular rites or adherence to specific creeds. Liberally educated and independently wealthy, Willard helped found the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1874 and served as its president from 1879 until her death. Frances Willard (1839–1898) never married instead, she devoted her life to teaching and promoting the rights of American women. The second half of the book proves especially enticing, when Ben and his dog, who communicate telepathically and whose affectionate sparring provides much of the book's spark, team up with a feisty gypsy girl and a young artist to save the long-lost son of a nobleman. If Jacques piles it on a bit thick in what actually becomes two separate tales-one a sea voyage and the other an overland trek-the sheer storytelling vigor is hard to resist. Once again, Jacques spins a rousing yarn that fairly bursts at the seams with exciting escapades, exotic locations, poems, shanties, treachery and derring-do as the heroes travel from the pirate-infested Caribbean to a cave awash with evil magic high in the Pyrénées. In this sequel to Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, young Ben and his faithful black Labrador, Ned, having escaped the ghostly ship's hellish curse but bound to wander the world for eternity lending a helping hand wherever needed, return for another spate of adventures. Attracting a diverse readership, the novel offered them such action sequences as the chariot race and a naval battle between Romans and Aegean pirates. The novel did not become a bestseller until 1885, when Wallace, a retired Civil War major-general turned Indiana attorney and literary businessman, wrote a prequel for one of Harper’s magazines and then embarked on lecture tours, most notably reading aloud the chariot race passage to several thousand enthusiasts at Chautauqua in 1886. Judah returns to Judea, defeats Messala in a chariot race in Antioch, and then raises three legions to support the new “King of the Jews,” whose message of peace he ultimately realizes. The novel’s protagonist, Judah Ben-Hur, is a wealthy Jewish teenager betrayed by his Roman friend Messala and enslaved in a naval galley, where he rescues the tribune Quintus Arrius, who in turn adopts him. It has generated more successful popular artistic by-products and had a larger commercial impact than any other modern literary property within the Greco-Roman tradition. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a historical romance novel set in 1st-century Judea and Antioch, was written by Lew Wallace ( 1827–1905) and published by Harper & Brothers in 1880. |