This book is part of a book series called Black Stallion .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 248 pages in this book. This book was published 1978 by Random House USA Inc .

Walter Farley was born in New York in 1920. After serving in the US Army, and working for Yank magazine, Farley put pen to paper and wrote the first of what was to be a 12-book adventure series about a powerful and unpredictable Arabian black stallion and his friendship with one boy, Alec Ramsay. Walter Farley wrote a total of 24 adventure stories involving horses. He died in 1989, leaving four children.