Joey is a war horse, but he wasn't always. Once, long ago, he was a farm horse and a gentle boy named Albert was his master. Then World War I came along and changed everything. Albert's father sells Joey to the army where the beautiful, red-bay horse is trained to charge the enemy, drag heavy artillery, and carry wounded soldiers not much older than Albert off of battlefields. Among the clamoring of guns, and plodding through the cold mud, Joey wonders if the war will ever end. And if it …
War Horse
Michael Morpurgo: War Horse (1982, Scholastic Inc.)
Joey is a war horse, but he wasn't always. Once, long ago, he was a farm horse and a gentle boy named Albert was his master. Then World War I came along and changed everything. Albert's father sells Joey to the army where the beautiful, red-bay horse is trained to charge the enemy, drag heavy artillery, and carry wounded soldiers not much older than Albert off of battlefields. Among the clamoring of guns, and plodding through the cold mud, Joey wonders if the war will ever end. And if it does, will he ever find Albert again?
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1982 da Scholastic Inc..
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- ISBN:
- 978-0-545-05798-1ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 671297505
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Argomenti
- Horses
- World War, 1914-1918
- Human-animal communication
- World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746
- Fiction
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