The Black Stallion

The Black Stallion

By Walter Farley

22 ratings 34 reviews 29 followers
Book 1 of 14 in the  Black Stallion Series
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades K - 6Guided Reading: T 5.249003
THE SOLE SURVIVORS of a devastating shipwreck, Alec Ramsay and the Black Stallion must learn to rely on each other to survive. As a strong bond develops between them, Alec gains the trust of the magnificent beast and eventually the Black allows Alec to ride. Finally, they are rescued, but will Alec and the Black be allowed to stay together?

Available in hardcover for the first time in a decade, this stunning facsimile of the original 1941 edition shows just how timeless this adventure classic is.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9780375855825
ISBN-10: 0375855823
Published on 9/9/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288

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It is a good book it is a really interesting book. The book is about a kid named Alec and he is on a boat going to new york and his bout crashes and he sees a stallion and he grabs the rope attached to him and gets taken to an island. Then several weeks later he gets rescued by these people who think they see people on the island. They were right so they took Alec on their boat and take him to another area where he gets on another boat and the black gets in a fight with another horse. So they have to break up a fight and then the bout gets to new york and he sees his parents. Then he goes home asks his neighbors if he could put the black in their stall in their barn. They say yes and the owner of the house Henry is a horse racing champion and they train the black and tell their newspaper writer friend Jim Neville. He talks about how fast the horse is and that he would win in a race against cyclone and sun raider and they let the black race them. So on the race track the match the race is about to start and the black and sun raider get in a fight and Alec gets off to check the wound. But the race starts and the black goes and they are so far behind no one thinks they could win but the black does it he beats cyclone and sun raider and gets an award.

A kid named Alec and a horse have a boat crash on an island for 16 days and he gets rescued he travels to New York, his home. He finds a place for the horse and meets the stable owner, Henry. Alec and Henry train the horse to go into racing. Jim Neville a news reporter writes a newsletter and says the black stallion is the fastest horse in the world. The two fastest horse racers accept the match race and the stallion and Alec win the race and the stallion is declared the fastest horse in the world. I do recommend the book. it leaves you in suspense, worry, and happiness. I liked when Alec and the stallion crash in the island.

Devin.S Devin.S

This book is about a horse and a kid named Alec and the horse name is called the Black Stallion, and they were in a boat crash and ended up in a island. they weren't friends the first time they mean't. Then at the middle they trained because they were going to a match race for the horse, and he won. I recommended you should read this book because it's funny and cool, and my favorite part is when the Black come back from the fastest horses in the country named Cyclone and Sun Raider, and the Black came back and won.

Alec Ramsay is a survivor of a shipwreck that was him and a stallion that carries him to an unknown desert island. He spends 2 weeks at the island to be saved by a passing ship to take him to Rio to catch a ride to New york. When he gets there he takes the stallion to an old horse jockey who tells him to put up in a race against the two fastest horses in the U.S. Alec agrees and trains the Stallion. Alec and the jockey get the stallion in the race by Jim Neville. This book is very fun and has a lot of suspense. If you like a lot of suspense then this is the book for you. I would recommend to my friends because it has very loveable characters

jjm jjm

This book was vary good like a kid named Alec finds a wild horse and tames it so he can be in the big race but he has no idey that there is a race agest sun rader and cyclone and wen he finds out about it he will be ready.

A.C Alec Ramsey was going to New York on a ship and a wild stallion was on the ship to. Then a big storm came and the ship sank and the only survivors was Alec the horse. They got stuck on the island on and on the island they became very close. The a ship saw them and rescued them. Then they got another ship and went to New York and Alec names the horse the back. In New York he trains the stallion with a guy named Henry and the black makes a new friend named Napoleon and then they find out that the black can be in a race with two of the fastest horses cyclone and sun raider. On the day of the race the black is far behind from cyclone and sun raider but he runs super fast that he catched up to them and won the race. I would recommend this book because it is really interesting and it is a good book.

S.A. S.A.

Alec found the stallion in the boat called drake then the boat sink and the stallion save Alec from sinking then they ended up in a island. Then a other boat came and took them home and Alec took the stallion with him. After that they met Henry that had a place to to but the stallion in. Then Alec and Henry found out the was a match race. After that they started training the black.Then the big day came. The stallion was going to race with two other horses and the stallion won the bid match race.

S.M. S.M.

I really liked this book because it's a lot about friendship and trust. I would recommend you to read this book because it's really interesting and as soon as you start reading it you wont want stop! The black was really all Alec could think of when he was on the ship, then when Alec and the Black had earned each others trust they were inseparable, I was so happy when Alec's parents let him keep the Black, and when they won the big race together!!

I love this book so much that it is my #1 favorite book of all time. Alexander or Alec Ramsey goes on a boat called the Drake to get home in New york but little did Alec know the Drake sunk, on the Drake was a black horse that saves Alecs life by swimming to an Island. Alec get saved with The Horse ( the black) and brought home. Alec went back to New york and get the Black into a match race. I would recommened this to all my friends becuase this book has so many excited things.

jw jw

Alec goes to new york and he takes a drake to rio and he meets a horse called the black stallion and they became friends and there was other horses and they became friends. I like this book because Alec saves the stallion and the stallion saves Alec. I would recomemened people to read this book because this is a book fun book that makes people get excited about chapters's that they want to keep on reading the chapters this is a good book i would keep on reading this a thousand times till im old.

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