Phantom Stallion, 23: Gypsy Gold

Samantha and Jen are out camping when they meet Nicholas, a boy traveling cross-country on a beautiful Gypsy Vanner mare. His caravan also includes a young colt. Nicholas says it's a stray, but the colt looks a lot like a missing mustang. When people start getting suspicious, Sam blames discrimination. She sticks up for her new friend and hopes she's right.

Terri Farley​ is the best-selling author of books about the contemporary and historic West. Her most recent book ​Wild at Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them​ (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is a Junior Library Guild selection; winner of the Sterling North Heritage award for Excellence in Children's Literature; and has been honored by Western Writers of America, National Science Teachers Association, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a recent inductee into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Her ​Phantom Stallion​ (HarperCollins) series for young readers has sold over two million copies worldwide.