The Horses of Lost Valley

About the Book

Tillery Hubbs, a twelve-year-old wimp in 1960’s San Diego, discovers a neglected horse in Lost Valley.  Struggling against the horse’s wealthy owner—and his own family—Till succeeds in saving the horse.  He gains the courage to fight flood and fire and protect the other horses of Lost Valley.  But when a new danger threatens, Till may be powerless to stop it.

The Horses of Lost Valley recently won two Purple Dragonfly Awards for 2017.

• First Place for Best Cover
• Second Place for Best Middle-Grade Fiction Book

About the Author

Aileen Kilgore Henderson served in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II. After the war, she taught school in Minnesota, Alabama, and the Big Bend of Texas. Although she had been selling short stories and magazine articles since the 1960s, her first book was not published until she was 74 years old. She has now published eight books and been included in three anthologies. Her books have twice been on the New York Public Library’s list of Best Books for the Teenage and have won various awards. She enjoys making author visits to schools to spread her love of reading and books. In the 1960’s, she learned of a little-known pocket of wild country in the heart of a California city, and came to know the horses that lived there.