Black Beauty is a young black colt and loves roaming Farmer Gray's
fields with his mother. As Black Beauty grows into a handsome stallion,
he is trained into the use of a saddle and whip and sold
to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall. Here, he makes many friends including
the angry Ginger, the well-meaning Merrylegs and the elderly
Sir Oliver, as well as stablehands James and John. When Squire
Gordon has to move abroad to improve his wife's ill health, Black
Beauty is sold again to Earlshall Park. So begins a hard and
unsettled life for Black Beauty who is always at the whim of his
human owners. Often he is whipped and made to wear blinkers or the
bearing rein, at other times he must work as a cab horse on the
busy London streets. Will Black Beauty ever be able to roam the
fields again as he did in his childhood? What has become of his friends
Ginger and Merrylegs? Rediscover Anna Sewell's moving tale
of the hardships of being an animal in a human world with Scholastic's
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