Everything you need to understand or teach Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry.
Off the coast of Virginia in the 1300s a Spanish Galleon is shipwrecked on an island called Assategue Island. The ship is carrying horses as cargo from Peru to be sold at the market in the new world. The horses survive the shipwreck and thrive on the island and live through the decades eventually becoming feral horses with shaggy coats. Humans eventually make their homes on the sister island across the...