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Black Beauty


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An abridged version of Anna Sewell's best-loved novel Black Beauty. The young colt Black Beauty begins life in a loving home. But his owners are forced to sell him, and Black Beauty's fortune changes. He is moved from place to place and job to job, often suffering cruel treatment and harsh conditions -- until a chance encounter leads to a new turn of events.

 

This book was recognised in the Big Read Top 100 category by the Bbc Book Awards.

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Anna Sewell (1820-78) was a British novelist. Black Beauty was her only published work.

This book contains the following story:

Black Beauty
When he comes of age, the horse Black Beauty is sold to a grand house to be a carriage horse. The groom, Joe, is kind but his masters are cruel. Every day Beauty and his fellow horse, Ginger, are shackled to the carriage with a tight bearing rein to keep their heads held high, and the two horses are whipped and generally mistreated. When Ginger misbehaves she is taken away. When Beauty smashes his knee he is sold to a London cabby. Pulling a cab through all the weather is hard work but Jerry is kind to Beauty and he is happy. Then Jerry is offered a job as groom by a customer and has to sell Beauty. His next master is harsh and cruel. But then Black Beauty is rescued by a horse doctor and at the doctors stables he discovers that the groom is none other than Joe. Beauty lives out the rest of his life in the doctors fields, happy and cared for.

This book has been nominated for the following award:

Bbc Book Awards
This book was recognised in the Big Read Top 100 category by the Bbc Book Awards.

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