Book
National Velvet
by Enid Bagnold
- Published
- 1953
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Pages
- 245
- Words
- 67848
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225774.National_Velvet?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.5
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 700L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 11–13
A butcher's daughter in a small Sussex town ends her nightly prayers with "Oh, God, give me horses, give me horses! Let me be the best rider in England!" The answer to 14-year-old Velvet Brown's plea materializes in the form of an unwanted piebald, raffled off in a village lottery, who turns out to be adept at jumping fences--exactly the sort of horse that could win the world's most famous steeplechase, the Grand National.
Collections
Mensa Kids · 7-8TJEd Youth Recommended
Tags
Adventure-Trials/TribulationsAnimals-HorsesClassicsMensa KidsSports/Recreation-Horse RacingThomas Jefferson Education Youth