My Friend Flicka Trilogy

Name of Book: My Friend Flicka

Author: Mary O’Hara

Pages: 280 pages

Age Recommendation: 11 +

Book Review: Mary O’Hara’s My Friend Flicka is one of the most touching, amazing and adventurous horse stories ever written. It is about a boy living on a horse breeding farm in Wyoming. The boy, Ken McLaughlin, though he is surrounded by hundreds of horses, longs for a horse of his very own. But Ken’s father is convinced that he can not waste a good horse on a dreamer like his son. However, Ken’s mother Nell manages to persuade Ken’s dad to let him choose a young horse of his own. Ken can not seem to find the right horse – until he sees the little chestnut filly he dubs ‘Flicka’. But Flicka is no ordinary filly. She is the daughter of Rocket – the last horse left of the renegade blood that was passed through the McLaughlin equines. Rocket is the wildest horse out of all the renegades – and, unfortunately, Flicka has inherited her dam’s spirit. However, Ken is determined to tame Flicka. If you want an action-packed, brilliant and totally horse-filled trilogy to read, My Friend Flicka is the place to start!

Name of Book: Thunderhead

Author: Mary O’Hara

Pages: Over 200 pages

Age Recommendation: 12 +

Book Review: Thunderhead is the second book in Mary O’Hara’s amazing trilogy. It stars Ken McLaughlin, his mare Flicka and Flicka’s new little colt, Thunderhead. White as snow, wild as a mountain lion and stunning as they come, Thunderhead has the makings of a champion racehorse. There is only one problem, however: the young colt hates humans. Ken soon discovers that his precious mare’s colt is a throwback to the Albino, the renegade stallion that used to terrorize the McLaughlins’ horse stud farm in the wilderness of Wyoming. Can Ken befriend the unmanageable colt and turn him into the champion he could be? Or will Thunderhead follow his great-grandfather’s path and turn Ken’s dream into a nightmare? Find out in the second book in the My Friend Flicka trilogy!

Name of Book: The Green Grass of Wyoming

Author: Mary O’Hara

Pages: Over 200 pages

Age Recommendation: 13 +

Book Review: The Green Grass of Wyoming is the final book in the unforgettable Flicka trilogy. Young Ken McLaughlin let his stallion Thunderhead go back to the wild. He left him up in the Valley of the Eagles, but Thunderhead – not being your usual stallion – escaped and now is roaming around the McLaughlin farm. For Ken, though he loves Thunderhead, the stallion’s presence is just another distraction from his horse racing, schoolwork and horse breeding that he does not need. Besides Thunderhead’s return, the arrival of the young girl at the next farm is yet another Ken has to distract him. Ken is also has just brought a young black mare, that he believes will help stretch the farm’s gene pool. But when Ken’s new horse escapes with Thunderhead, the young McLaughlin has yet another thing to worry about. Find out what happens in the final book of the My Friend Flicka trilogy!