CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2015) - Commended
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" The life story of a painted mustang set against the backdrop of America s Great Plains in the late 1800s.
It s the late 1800s. A Lakota boy finds an orphaned mustang foal and brings her back to his family s camp, naming her Paint for her black-and-white markings. Boy and horse soon become inseparable. Together they learn to hunt buffalo, their fear of the massive beasts tempered by a growing trust in each other.
When the U.S. Cavalry attacks the camp, the pair is forced onto separate paths. Paint s fate becomes entwined with that of settlers, who bring irreversible change to the grassland, setting the stage for environmental disaster. Bought and sold several times, Paint finally finds a home with English pioneers on the Canadian Prairie.
With a great dust storm looming on the horizon, man and horse will need to work together if they hope to survive. "