Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelA retelling of Anna Sewell’s classic adventure story of Black Beauty as he starts life carefree in the field with his mother, and is then sold from owner to owner. Will he survive as his treatment gets worse and worse, and will he ever find an owner worthy of his unending loyalty?Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.Text type: A classic storyCurriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritageThis book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.