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Joined by Hiram the farmhand, Katie begins the journey west. At first, she is unsure if the Mustang will follow, but much to her relief, he seems to trust her. Soon, Katie and Hiram meet up with a large family who invite them to join their caravan. For the first time, it seems as though they might really make it to Oregon. But then tragedy strikes, and Katie finds herself having to choose between parting ways with Hiram, or abandoning her dreams of going west&150and giving up on the chance to return the Mustang to his homeland.
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Posted March 3, 2009
My daughter and I are reading this series together and I love it just as much as she does. It is so refreshing to hear my child beg to keep reading! I would recommend this to any child, not just a girl, between the ages of 8 and 12, especially if they love horses!
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Posted May 19, 2008
I loved these books all of them! Katie and the Mustang is for horse lovers and history lovers just like me. I was looking for a book about history and horses and i found one that was outstanding!
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Posted March 12, 2012
Great book
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Posted July 28, 2011
The best book ever,about friendship. ;-)
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Posted December 27, 2011
Love this series. Such a beautiful story.
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Posted January 9, 2011
awsome!
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Posted January 15, 2010
This Hoofbeats series is SO SAD & DEPRESSING. Impossible to read without crying. Impossible to explain to your daughters about why girls in the 1820s were beaten & treated as unpaid labor. MISERABLE SERIES--not worth reading as an adult--TERRIBLE FOR KIDS! Emotionally draining & BLEAK...don't even check this out from the library--you'll regret it!
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Posted January 15, 2010
Books one & two of this series are SO DEPRESSING & SAD & BLEAK--I had a hard time reading them to my daughters every night. I found it impossible to explain why a young girl was an orphan, why she mourned her dead parents (which the author details graphically), and why she's being BEATEN & treated as a SLAVE by the childless couple who takes her in.
Things never get better or happier--they just change location. She goes on the trail to Oregon, and meets with MORE heart-wrenching tragedy. Things never gell with the wild Mustang. There is NO happy ending--things are just left as bleak as they started.
I wouldn't read this as an adult--DEFINITELY NOT FOR KIDS!!! Sad, sad, nightmare city!
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Posted January 15, 2010
My grade-school age daughter brought this home & we started reading it at bedtime. It's a TERRIBLE SERIES! We've now read books one & two--hoping book two would get better.
Set in the early 1800's, they're SUPER-SAD & BLEAK. The main character, Katie, is an orphan whose parents & sister died of "the fever." She lives with a childless couple who BEAT HER & treat her as their poorly-fed SLAVE.
She spends chapters talking about being beaten with a willow switch for crying out loud! In book two, Katie escapes, but then finds herself in the middle of tragedy again--on the trail to Oregon.
They were VERY hard to read. I cried, my daughters cried. I found I couldn't sufficiently explain to them why thing were as they were--why the era, and the times they lived in made it ok for women to be beaten & treated like dirt. I couldn't say anything to make it better.
The author's writing style was long-winded & depressing to boot. The stories did NOT have any kind of upbeat, happy ending--they were just left hanging...from one miserable moment to the next.
I wouldn't read these as an adult! DEFINITELY NOT FOR KIDS!!!
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Posted July 8, 2004
Katie went all the way to Oregon for absolutly nothin. It must have been hard for here to let go of the mustang. I just hope that shell live happily ever after. I thought these bks were interestin.
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Posted March 23, 2004
Young Katie, orphaned in an epidemic, is taken in by Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, a childless couple. But then she learned that they planned to kill the mustang horse she had befriended and take her to an orphanage in St. Louis. With the help of Hiram, the farmhand, Katie is able to escape the Stevenses and take the mustang with her. Hiram, who has no family of his own, feels he must protect Katie and offers to take her on the long journey west so she can live with her relatives in Oregon. But just the journey to Independence, Missourri -- the starting-off point for the Oregon Trail -- is difficult and dangerous, and the mustang still doesn't trust Katie fully. Young readers who enjoy historical fiction or horse stories will love this new series from Kathleen Duey.
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Overview
Joined by Hiram the farmhand, Katie begins the journey west. At first, she is unsure if the Mustang will follow, but much to her relief, he seems to trust her. Soon, Katie and Hiram meet up with a large family who invite them to join their caravan. For the first time, it seems as though they might really make it to Oregon. But then tragedy strikes, and Katie finds herself having to choose between parting ways with Hiram, or abandoning her dreams of going west&150and giving up on the chance to return the ...