Book 1

Gib Rides Home

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Published 9 February 1998
Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.

Book 2

Gib and the Gray Ghost

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Published 8 February 2000
In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home.