My eleven-year old and I read this book together during our literature time to support our study of World War I. My son loved this book!
Joey, a beautiful, red-bay horse, loves his owner Albert and his farm life in England. When Albert's father secretly sells Joey to the military to help pay for the farm mortgage, Joey's predictable life is uprooted. Instead of pulling plows, he is hauling guns. Instead of trodding over rich soil, he is plodding through deep mud. Along the way he encounters and befriends a French man and his granddaughter, kind German soldiers and a wonderful horse companion, Topthorn. Meanwhile, Albert has vowed that he would persist until he was reunited with Joey and could bring him home.
*Highly recommend.
-It is considered a "Young Adult" novel--- Warnings/points to discuss: Albert's father is often drunk and not very nice; swearing; death/war violence; horses are sold to the butcher at the end of the story (It's reading level is late elementary, but content is more suitable for junior high and high school.)
We will soon watch the movie to compare it.
-He owns this book.
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