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The Black Stallion and the Lost City

by Steve Farley
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When Alec and the Black are hired to work as stunt doubles in a film about Alexander and his horse, Bucephalus, they find themselves on set in the remote mountains of the Greek/Bulgarian border. Movie making involves a lot of waiting, so they set out for a morning of exploring. Chasing an elusive albino mare, the two find themselves caught in an underground river which drops them, half-drowned, beside a city lost in time.
Revered at first, they soon discover that they are intended as the entertainment at a horrific ritual . . . sacrifices to the legendary flesh-eating mares in the coloseum of King Diomedes.
Another thrilling new Black Stallion novel by Walter Farley's son, which proves that the art of writing a great horse story is definitely in the genes!

  • Creators

  • Series

    Black Stallion

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 28, 2011

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780375898877

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780375898877
      • File size: 2011 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 6
    • Lexile® Measure: 880
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 4-5

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      May 15, 2011

      The Black Stallion battles flesh-eating mares in this strange, off-putting addition to the late Walter Farley's series, written by his son.

      Alec Ramsey and his Black Stallion are playing the parts of Alexander the Great and his horse Bucephalus in a movie filmed in the mountains of Greece near a mysterious, heavily guarded "resort." When the Black pursues a strange albino mare across a stream, Alex and the 13-year-old daughter of one of the stunt riders (who seems to have no purpose in the story other than to keep it from being entirely populated by adults) follow. They fall into a mysterious underground river and thence into a strange world where people stay young by drinking magical water and offering human sacrifices to flesh-eating mares. It's meant to parallel the legend of Diomedes; unfortunately, none of it makes any sense. A graphic scene of horses consuming an elderly couple will unsettle many readers. Farley's writing, simultaneously flat and full of hyperbole, would be right at home in a B-movie Western, as would his characters, who come straight out of central casting, bad foreign dialects and all. Even the Black has become a stereotype.

      Readers are better off sticking to the originals. (Fiction. 9-12)

      (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2011
      In Greece filming a movie about Bucephalus, the Black Stallion, with Alec in tow, chases a wild albino mare over an underground waterfall. Horse and boy end up in a village led by a megalomaniacal governor who controls access to a fountain of youth. Farley's writing continues to be just fine, but his underdeveloped fantasy conceit stalls out.

      (Copyright 2011 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:6
  • Lexile® Measure:880
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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