Saddle up for this first volume in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from DiCamillo's "New York Times"-bestselling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, and then it's love at first sight.

"A jet-black young colt, Black Beauty, spends his early years in a cozy meadow growing up with a gentle master, a strong mother and an ideal upbringing. Through the years, he changes hands with different masters some rough, some kind, some indifferent. Black Beauty's experiences throughout his life give him lessons on real friendship, loss, hardship and human nature. Gallop with Black Beauty as he grows into a worn yet mature and handsome, dutiful...

Sydney Todachine is looking forward to a summer on the beaches of San Diego before starting sixth-grade, but instead she finds herself on her Grandfather's ranch on the Navajo Nation reservation with no wi-fi, and while a couple of the kids are pretty nice, her cousin Hadley is as nasty as ever--but Sydney bonds with a spirited horse called Midnight, and together they start training at night for the upcoming rodeo.

Two years after being thrown by her horse, Blackie, in a near-fatal accident, Sam returns to her family's ranch and meets a mustang that could be the missing Blackie, or the legendary Phantom, or both.

Phantom and Sam have become friends, and Sam is determined to defend his freedom on the open range. The mustang has been accused of stealing tame mares from local ranchers. Sam knows the Phantom isn't to blame. A local rancher offers a reward to anyone who can capture the wild stallion. The Phantom has a price on his head. Sam not only is fighting for his freedom but his life!

Kami Cooper is already an accomplished rider, but when she joins the Stardust stunt-riding stables in Colorado, she discovers she still has a lot to learn--and being a stunt double is not all glamour.

After rescuing an abused mare from a group of thieves, Sam knows she has done the right thing.

A colt befriends a girl and along with the colt's mother, the girl encourages the crooked colt to become a fast runner.

After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.