Anna Sewell,retold by Jenny Dooley & Virginia Evans
Description:
A horse´s life can be happy and free, or it can be hard and full of sadness. Follow Black Beauty through his carefree early years, until a deadly accident sends him into the hands of many owners - some kind, some cruel. Will he survive long enough to be happy again?
... When the men were all looking at the treasure, something like a black shadow came to the top of the stairs ... It stayed back in the darkness of the stairs until the men moved the chest to their boats ...
Simon heard a woman scream, then a gunshot. There was another shot and the sound of glass breaking. Simon fell to the floor and crawled towards the kitchen. Rocky was in there, barking and jumping at the kitchen door.
