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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Dingo the mule grew up believing he was a horse. When Dingo's best friend told him he was not a horse, he had an identity crisis and ran away. He was tricked into a job he did not like but through that he gained great strength, mentally and physically. He also met other mules. Finding others like himself gave Dingo a new, positive outlook on life...He was so happy. Finally he could be his true self.
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Our boys grew up in Colorado, riding horseback and pulling pack strings over rugged mountains. Their father encouraged them to explore the Wild West - without him along to chaperone. This is the story of their first ride - as pre-teens - with Pete, their trusted mule, and Tim their buddy who had never ridden a horse! When David and Joe first read 'Pete and the Horsey Gang', they corrected my account. "Pete was no hero," they insisted. "He was just...
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The image of 20 mules hauling a train of wagons was once as popular as the golden arches are today. Everyone knew what it meant. It was the trademark of Pacific Coast Borax's most famous product, a laundry additive called Twenty Mule Team Borax. The company's advertising was dependent on one important fact: the connection between the Twenty Mule Team and America's most notorious desert, Death Valley. From 1883 to 1888, teams of mules and wagons hauled...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In Gee's Bend, Alabama, Miz Pettway tells young Alex about the historic role her mule played in the struggle for civil rights led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes factual information about the community of Gee's Bend and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Series
Franchise collection volume 1
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Francis the talking mule: A talking mule adopts a second lieutenant as his master in the Burmese jungle during World War II.
Francis goes to the races: Peter and Francis go to stay on a horsebreeding ranch. Peter is smitten by the owner's granddaughter, and Francis enjoys the easy life. But a debt has come due that threatens the ranch, and Francis uses connections with his equine friends to come up with some winners.
Francis goes to West Point:...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Tommy Braxton's father goes to war and never returns, forcing Tommy to become the man of the house and help support his mom and sister. Tommy makes a friend and finds a way to save his family's farm when he meets Jackie-A, a talking mule. Tommy and Jackie-A triumph in a race over the older bullies and their horses at the county stock show.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Apple Dumpling Gang: Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.
Apple Dumpling Gang rides again: Amos and Theodore are back and trying to make it on their own. When they arrive at the town they are going to, all sorts of things go awry.
Hot lead & cold feet: A tough father is out to take control of a small western town with the help of his twin sons: one a gunfighter, the other a mild-mannered coward.
Gus: The California Atoms are in...
31) Gus
Series
Pub. Date
[199-?]
Description
A mule who kicks 100-yard field goals becomes the star player of a pro football team.