The Black Stallion - Walter Farley

Alec is just coming home after a great trip to see his uncle in India. He is going on a ship called the Drake to get back to South America, and from there to New York, where his family is. A week or two into the trip, a wild black stallion is loaded onto the ship. No one wants to go near the beast, except Alec. Every night he puts a lump of sugar on the horses window sill, and then walks away. The next night it is always gone. During a horrible storm, the Drake goes down. Alec and the horse are thrown off the boat. The horse, with his sharp instincts and powerful legs, starts swimming towards land. Alec suddenly remembers the rope tied to the horses neck, which was used to control it. He grabs the rope and is pulled along to shore with the horse. As their time on the island gets longer, an unlikely friendship forms between Alec and the giant horse. Eventually, they are at the point where Alec gets a ride around the island with the horse. This sparks Alec's imagination of the black being an amazing race horse in America. He could be spectacular if Alec could just get back to America...................

I would recommend this book to everybody but especially people who really like horses.