The Stallion and His Peculiar Boy
The Stallion and His Peculiar Boy
Based On the Life of the Famous Arabian Horse Witez II
Authors & Illustrator
Author:
M
J
Evans
Second Place Award
Fiction > YA - Animals
Description
★Inspired by a true story, The Stallion and His Peculiar Boy will touch your heart as no other horse story has before.★
World War II is raging. Hitler is hiding away the world’s most beautiful purebred horses in a little village in Czechoslovakia. Lipizzaners, Thoroughbreds and the prize Polish Arabians are being used in his experiments to create the perfect war horse.
A peculiar twelve-year-old boy from the village named Teodor becomes the groom for one of those special horses – Witez II, one of the most famous Arabian stallions of all time. Witez helps the boy face his challenges and find his voice at a time when little is known about the condition now called “Autism.”
The Stallion and His Peculiar Boy blends the suspense of a World War II military rescue operation with the subsequent challenges of resettlement in a new land