Clean Teen Fiction

Believing in Horses Too

Valorie Ormond

Thirteen-year-old Sadie Navarro loves horses and her dad. But for now, her dad is in Afghanistan, and she’s eager to distract herself until he’s safely home. So Sadie focuses on training her new horse, Lucky, to compete in the largest local show — and checks in on Goliath, the draft horse she rescued.

It seems like the perfect plan, until Sadie’s enthusiasm gets her roped into volunteering for a therapeutic riding program for returning soldiers. To make matters worse, her inexperienced horse and an unwelcome show ring rival are threatening Sadie and Lucky’s chances to win.

Sadie wants to make her father proud. She wants to help others. But can she find the courage to overcome her fears? 

Believing in Horses

Valorie Ormond

 First the move to Maryland. Then Dad's deployment to Afghanistan. Sadie is in trouble. Then she gets Lucky, a new, young horse who proves to be a handful. But that's just the beginning. Together they encounter horse thieves, Maryland storms, and unwanted horses destined for auction and uncertain futures. Sadie makes it her personal mission to save the horses. Along the way, she meets other people who are dedicated to rescuing horses. She also learns some people in the horse industry are driven by greed. And, she's only twelve. 

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Believing in Horses out West

Valorie Ormond

Sadie Navarro rescued a mare from an auction accomplishing what she thought was the most important mission of her young life.

Now, that mare is headed to a ranch in Montana and a home Sadie knows nothing about.

She wants to make sure the horse is in good hands, but Montana is far away and a different world from Maryland.

Will fourteen-year-old Sadie need to stand up to rugged cowboys to protect her special rescue horse?

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Teacher's Tack

Edward Ormond (Author), Valerie Ormond (Author), Flo Ormond (Illustrator), Doug Willis (Photographer)  

 Teacher’s Tack for Believing In Horses provides educators lesson plans, discussion activities, and fun learning opportunities for a wide variety of ages and reading levels. This guide is an excellent resource for home schoolers! Developed by career educator Edward Ormond (AKA “EdUCator), this comprehensive teacher’s guide will make any teacher’s job easier.

Bits of Unbridled Enthusiasm for Teacher's Tack:
"This comprehensive Teacher's Tack will be welcomed by teachers, parents, and other educators to engage students in discovering the multiple levels of meaning in Believing in Horses." ~Carol Thornton, Media Specialist for 20+ years

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Creepo Riko

Nolan Wattay

 Located in Richmond, Virginia, an estranged child by the name of Rico Ballistar is born into a broken family where his father leaves him after he is born and his mother and half-sister neglect him. He has no friends, but due to what seems like a fateful circumstance, finally makes one. They immediately get along and share a few fond moments together. Though not long after, his friend is murdered, and we know exactly who did it. He is at the wrong place and time, and he is framed for it. He ends up evading the corrupt police force and goes into hiding with a close, family friend. Five years later, he, nor the real murderer is caught, and the case goes cold. 

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Old Country Surprises

Seeking my family roots

Ken Saik

 Ken Saik, a retired social studies high school teacher, is a third-generation Canadian Ukrainian who lives in Alberta Canada. In 2012, to bolster his limited cultural knowledge he took a bus tour of Ukraine. Their current Ukrainian life and love of their history revitalize the author's fascination with his heritage as his book Old Country Surprises illustrates. Ken Saik loves to write. His passion was first recognized by his grade six teacher and later by his English high school teacher. 

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 The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The Stone Shall Be Mine 

Book 1

 Bradford Henshaw

 THE PRINCE OF BRIM-LOCH TUM is a tale told in seven books; a simple rustic fantasy, vintage in bearing and romantic in scope. Set in a world of Elves and Men and Little People, it tells the lives and histories of many—both of the evil, and of the good—who become embroiled in the struggle for mastery over a rich and diverse land called Cen-Tuin.  Will the Evil One find a way to defraud them of their inheritances?  

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 The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The Three Sided Bridge 

Book 2

 Bradford Henshaw 

 THE PRINCE OF BRIM-LOCH TUM is simple rustic fantasy, vintage in bearing and romantic in scope. Set in a world of Elves and Men and Little People, it tells the lives and histories of many—both of the evil, and of the good. Seven nations have covenanted together against a common enemy. Being thus bound, they find themselves not only at war with the Black Flower, but in conflict among themselves as well.As the story opens, two children have been born on the same calendar day—Storr Mason of the Minnekens, and Llam of the Mariner kings. 

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The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The House of Royalle

Book 3

 Bradford Henshaw 

  As it is plainly foretold—There shall be hostility between the Evil One and the High King, and between Her spawn and his offspring. She shall splinter their arrows, and he shall shatter Her bow.From the Place of Beginnings a little people come forth down from the ice and snow bearing a treasure without which the world must perish—a great burden to be guarded when all other treasures are lost.Who in the King’s household conspires for the life of the Prince? Wild game moves on—but the hidden track remains. 

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The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: Tendrils of the Black Flower

Book 4

 Bradford Henshaw 

  TENDRILS OF THE BLACK FLOWER: Sait Agatha Veld was first to give her nation over to the Evil One. Being a transterpreter, Agatha was able to turn darkness into light, smuggling two illegal tribes into Cen-Tuin and calling it legal. Wraylan La’Brille was second to throw away his soul and his people to the Black Flower. Born High Lord Viceroy to a nation of spineless Scyphotanians, he proved unserviceable to the powers of Brim-Loch Tum. 

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 The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The Port Darling Waterfront

Book 5

 Bradford Henshaw 

 Storr Mason had turned fifteen last Autumn. Until this spring his whole life had been the sweet, slow pattern of all Minneken children, running in the sunny fields of Minnionon and playing in the shady woodland groves at the foot of the mountains. But suddenly all those things had been altered.  Clayborn and Letty Mason’s lives had lately taken on a weighty measure of changes—changes which would shape Storr’s days like they had never been shaped before—changes upon which could turn even his final destiny. 

The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The Forging of a Prince

Book 6

 Bradford Henshaw 

 A lone bugle sounding in the forested hills calls the plain mountain people down the hollows and rills, down the quiet meadows from their orchards and mills with their axes swinging in their hands. Beneath the grey welkin of a gathering storm, the tolling of a bell on the heavens is borne; breastplate of justice over jerkin is worn, and joy is a longbow in the hand. The Olden Road was cobbled when the Ages were dim, the Wynde River thundered o’er the Palisade Rim; the Old Sage is marking with an eagle-wing pen, spear tips glitter in the sun.  Merrily, merrily, merrily we sing — Merrily, merrily, marching off to War. 

The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The Opalescent Covenant

Book 7

 Bradford Henshaw

 Each of the Seven Stones of the Opalescent Covenant is brought to judgment according to its owner’s response to the challenge of personal sovereignty. Who shall wear the Rainbow Pearl? Will it be Death or will it be Life?

Seven Gates of Brim-Loch Tum—portals to the Chamber of Inquiry—are breached by hands no longer hands. The frailest hand in The World Which Is, then joins with Him who conquers last, to breach the Gate of Forever Lost.

Seven Tales not Fully Told are as fully told as tales permit—as long as lambskin, ink and quill—as long as Time and Truth endure.  

In the End

Ken Saik

 A Sinkhole Swallows 12 Teens
In the young-adult thriller novel, 12 senior high boys attempt to escape death by sliding down a rope and climbing into an old mine tunnel, the entrance to an underground labyrinth.
One of the boys senses a menacing presence but can’t prove its existence. Then the mine’s dangers claim one life after another.
The closed-knit boys soon realize that their limited food and water supplies is the least of their problems. Hope of returning home changes to needing to find a way out of the endless, dangerous, tunnels to escape whatever is killing them off. How many of them will live to tell their tale? 

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