The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar Author:Natalie Kinsey-Warnock Grade 1-3-- Based on a true 19th-century incident, this memoir builds on the rhythms of nature. A seven-year-old girl narrates her life on lonely Sweetbriar Island, off the coast of Nantucket. She, her mother, and her Coast Guard father share the island with a band of wild horses. The horses symbolize the harshness of island life in this mood st... more »ory. Like the human family, they enjoy the summer and fall, and survive the winter with determination and hope. Readers will be haunted by the contrasts of the seasons, portrayed in appropriate colors. Rand's arresting watercolors emphasize the blues and grays of the changing sky.« less