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Zan, City Cowboy    by Joe Novara
Price: $2.99 USD. 28870 words. Published on January 4, 2010. .

Zan, 12, from a rough part of town, is smart, a natural athlete and an immediate friend of any animal he meets including a foal he helps birth. Watch him fall in love with horses as he wedges into a circle of horse loving friends you’ve come to know from earlier books: Wa-Tonka, Camp Cowboys and Saving for Trace. Watch him make new friends and enemies in Can Do, Zan, and A Horse in My Kitchen.
Can Do, Zan    by Joe Novara
Price: $2.99 USD. 25600 words. Published on January 4, 2010. .

Can Do, Zan, Alexander chants to himself whenever he confronts a challenge. The intelligent, animal loving, African American 12-year old, works at a stable, learns to ride horses, connects with mounted police-horse training, goes to a summer camp in Northern Michigan, canoes in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, deals with a bully, copes with his diabetes and discovers Native American artifacts. Whew.
Finch Goes Wild    by Janet Gingold
Price: $5.99 USD. 57060 words. Published on August 11, 2010. .

Harmon doesn't fit into the hole he gets shoved into. He has to break out. With his grades at an all-time low and his weight off the charts, he knows he's headed for trouble. Even in his music he finds too many wrong notes. When the noise of his jeering classmates and nagging mother threatens to overwhelm him, he finds a whole new world to explore in nearby wild places.