<div><B>Will a city girl&rsquo;s horse dreams ever come true?</B><BR /><BR />For Jordan McKenzie, moving from Los Angeles to rural Michigan was a big change. In LA, she was used to giant shopping malls and classmates who came to school in makeup and heels. In North Adams, Michigan, the nearest Walmart is thirty miles away. Since Jordan is a jeans-and-sneakers kind of girl, she hoped she&rsquo;d fit in better here&mdash;plus, there are horses in Michigan! She has wanted one forever, but in LA they were too expensive. Draft horses&mdash;gentle giants&mdash;are her favorites, with their dependable demeanors, huge size, and muscle power. Even though all the North Adams kids have horses, Jordan&rsquo;s busy mother barely agrees to let her coop a couple of chickens on their newly rented farm. Jordan&rsquo;s wish may never come true.<BR /><BR />Then she meets Star Gazer, a Percheron mare, at a farm auction and makes a desperate bid to save the aging horse from the slaughterhouse. Jordan is thrilled to bring her home, but Star Gazer is lame and skittish. Can Jordan&rsquo;s loving care nurse her back to health? And can she make Star Gazer a part of the family before her mother decides to find her a new home?<BR /></div>

Star Gazer

<div><B>The moment Jessica lays eyes on the wild black-and-white paint filly, she knows it was meant to be</B><BR /><BR />Jessica&rsquo;s life at Wild Hawk Ranch is happy, if a bit quiet. But everything changes when her father and brother drive the latest herd of wild young quarter horses into the pen at the family ranch. There, she spots the most beautiful black-and-while paint filly she&rsquo;s ever seen. She just knows . . . this is the year, and that is the horse. Her moment has come&mdash;she&rsquo;ll finally get to join her father and brother in the family business of breaking wild horses, if only she can convince her father she is old enough.<BR /><BR />But after a difficult turn, the family has no option but to keep the ranch afloat by turning it into a dude ranch for vacationing city folk. At first, Jess is thrilled by the idea. It will be fun to have new people around&mdash;and maybe the extra work will convince her father to give her Storm Chaser, the beautiful paint. But things get complicated when the guests begin arriving. Will Jess be able to salvage her old, happy life and save Storm Chaser from an uncertain future?<BR /></div>

Storm Chaser

<div><B>Riding Astra makes Lily feel closer to her mom&mdash;even if Lily&rsquo;s dad blames horses for her mother&rsquo;s death</B><BR /><BR />At thirteen, Lily O&rsquo;Neil dreams of riding Arabian endurance horses in the Sierra Nevada foothills like her mom once did&mdash;before her fatal accident. Now, Lily&rsquo;s father has forbidden her from going near horses ever again&mdash;he&rsquo;s even sold her beloved pony, Domino. But Grams understands that horses are Lily&rsquo;s life, just like they were for her mom.<BR /><BR />Astra Atomica is Lily&rsquo;s favorite, a graceful gray Arabian mare with the potential to become a great champion. Lily&rsquo;s mom saw it too&mdash;she rode the spirited animal to several victories&mdash;and Lily knows that the freak accident wasn&rsquo;t Astra&rsquo;s fault any more than it was her mother&rsquo;s. Lily&rsquo;s secret dream is to ride Astra all the way to the Tevin Cup, like her mother had planned to do. If only she can make her father see how much her bond with Astra means to her, and how much riding meant to her mother.<BR /></div>

Astra

<div><B>In the rough-and-tumble Nevada landscape, where every day brings a new threat to the wild mustangs&rsquo; natural way of life, can Callie save her dream horse when disaster strikes?</B><BR /><BR />Plucky thirteen-year-old Callie McLean loves nothing more than to watch the herd of wild mustangs frolic near her farm in the rocky desert of Northern Nevada. School&rsquo;s out for the summer, which means three months of hanging out with horses and her best friend, Billie&mdash;and three months of freedom from classmates teasing her about her hippie clothes, two-dollar words, and organic-farmer parents. Callie gets to study with their equine veterinarian all summer too.<BR /><BR />When Callie learns her favorite wild palomino mare, Moonbeam, is in foal, she&rsquo;s ecstatic. And Cloud Dancer, the golden buckskin stallion, is going to be a father. Callie can&rsquo;t imagine a more beautiful pairing. But her summer idyll is broken when the Bureau of Land Management rounds up the mustangs for penning and adoption. Callie is heartbroken that the majestic horses will no longer live in the wild. Maybe she can adopt Moonbeam herself. But when the trauma of the round-up leaves Moonbeam and her new foal, Moon Shadow, in trouble, it seems Callie might lose her dream horse and the new foal forever.<BR /></div>

Moon Shadow

<div><B>Katie makes a sacrifice to save the life of a disabled racing colt&mdash;but will it all be in vain?</B><BR /><BR />At Willow Run Thoroughbred Farm, horses are born and bred for racing. When a much-anticipated bay colt endowed with the farm&rsquo;s finest racing blood is born with terribly twisted legs, the obvious choice is to put him down. He&rsquo;d be lucky if he could stand and nurse, let alone race. But thirteen-year-old Katie can&rsquo;t stand the idea. Born with one of her legs almost an inch shorter than the other, she wonders what would have happened if her parents had felt the same way about her. What if they had given up on her entirely when they realized she couldn&rsquo;t be a prima ballerina?<BR /><BR />Desperate to save the colt&rsquo;s life, Katie works out a deal with the farm&rsquo;s owner and becomes the proud owner of Willow King. Can she help him overcome the odds and claim his place as the racehorse royalty he was born to be?<BR /></div>

Willow King

<div><B>Can a rescued horse help Ali get through to her brother, who has returned from Afghanistan with PTSD?</B><BR /><BR /> Ali used to love horses. But that was before the accident, when she was injured and her pony died. Before her brother Danny joined the military.<BR />  <BR /> Now Danny has returned from Afghanistan. He&rsquo;s learning to walk with the prosthetic that has replaced one of his legs, but he can&rsquo;t seem to find a way to reconnect with family and friends. Withdrawn and quick to anger, Danny suffers from terrible nightmares and frightening mood changes.<BR />  <BR /> When Ali realizes that an elderly neighbor has been neglecting her horses, she decides she has to act. Can Ali rise above her painful memories and love a horse again? And can Wind Dancer, also injured and traumatized, help Danny rediscover meaning in his life?<BR />  <BR /></div>

Chris Platt

Books By Chris Platt (6 Books)

Star Gazer

Storm Chaser

Astra

Moon Shadow

Willow King

Wind Dancer

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Chris Platt

Books By Chris Platt (6 Books)

Star Gazer

Storm Chaser

Astra

Moon Shadow

Willow King

Wind Dancer

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