Justin Morgan Had a Horse

by Henry, Marguerite; Dennis, Wesley

• ISBN13: 9780689852794
• ISBN10: 0689852797
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Aladdin

Summary

Joel's face suddenly lit up as if he had thought of something for the first time. He spoke now to the horse, as though he were the one that mattered. "Why, come to think of it, you're just like us, Bub. You're American! That's what you are. American!"In 1791 a Vermont schoolmaster by the name of Justin Morgan comes home with a two-year-old colt named Little Bub. Taken as payment for an outstanding debt, the little colt doesn't seem like he is worth much, but the kindly teacher asks one of his students, Joel Goss, to train him. Joel knows the horse has great potential, and soon word about Little Bub spreads throughout the entire Northeast for his ability to outwork, outrun, outtrot, and outwalk any horse in the area.This is the extraordinary tale of a little workhorse, who, after being born in obscurity, becomes one of the greatest breeding stallions of all time. In this true story Newbery Medal-winning author Marguerite Henry and artist Wesley Dennis celebrate the life of the only horse ever to establish a breed all by himself -- the Morgan.

Author Biography

Marguerite Henry published her first children's book, Misty of Chincoteague, in 1947, and published more than forty books in her lifetime. Many of her books are now considered classics and are published in gift editions worldwide. She won the Newbery Medal in 1948 for her second book, King of the Wind, and both Misty of Chincoteague and Justin Morgan Had a Horse are Newbery Honor books.

Table of Contents

Joel Meets Little Bub	11	(10)
A Fuzzy Shadow	21	(8)
Northward to Vermont	29	(10)
Horse-Trader Hawkes	39	(7)
Pa Gets an Idea	46	(8)
Seven Years! Seven Years!	54	(9)
A Stranger Knocking	63	(8)
The Pulling Bee	71	(12)
Stronger'n a Ox	83	(7)
A Challenge from New York	90	(9)
High-Duck Dandies	99	(8)
Out of the Satchel	107	(10)
Bub Travels the Singing Circuit	117	(7)
The Auction Block	124	(6)
Little Bub Lost	130	(7)
``I'll Go to Plattsburg!''	137	(11)
A Whinny in the Night	148	(10)
Justin Morgan and the President	158