North Oak: Books 1-3
- 4.0 out of 5
- 46 ratings
- 586 pages
Overall Content Rating: Restricted R
This is a young-teen foster-and-horse-racing drama where a guarded protagonist carries guilt and grief from a violent loss while adjusting to a wealthy stable home. Expect steady profanity from adults and teens when tensions flare, including courtroom and family scenes. Parents should know the book repeatedly returns to bloody trauma and self-blame, depicts punching and kicking in conflicts, and describes accidents and abuse in backstory without focusing on sexual content. Emotional intensity and language skew older than the protagonist’s age might suggest.
Reviews first uploaded September 30, 2026 12:32 am. Revised October 8, 2026 8:51 am. Page updated October 8, 2026 8:51 am.
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Crude Moderate
39Characters often use harsh put-downs and sarcastic taunts in school, foster-home, and barn arguments rather than sustained graphic vulgarity.
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Specific words
- stupid: 25
- suck: 8
- idiot: 6
Profanity Heavy
83Strong language runs throughout, especially religious-themed expletives and intensifiers in teen and adult dialogue, with smaller amounts of harsh body terms and occasional stronger outbursts during anger or fear.
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Specific words
- hell: 39
- damn: 24
- ass: 8
- butt: 6
- shit: 3
- bullshit: 2
- dick: 1
Violence Moderate
60The story revisits a friend’s violent death and blood-soaked aftermath, includes fistfights and injuries, a serious car crash with head trauma, fire danger, and past mistreatment at a former placement.
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Specific words
- blood: 21
- kick: 19
- bleed: 9
- punch: 9
- stab: 2
About this book
In this special compilation of books 1 through 3 of the North Oak series, you'll discover and relive Alex's first year at North Oak. The trilogy contains: BORN TO RUN : **FREE** Alexandra Anderson is on the run from the law. When the thirteen-year-old orphan can run no further, she collapses at the gates of the prestigious racing and breeding farm, North Oak. Horse racing strikes a deep chord in her. She hears a higher calling in the jingle jangle of bit and stirrup and in the thunder of hooves on the turn for home. It tells her she has a place in the world. But when the racing headlines find her on the front of every sports page, she realizes North Oak is no longer a safe haven. Money can't buy love, but it just might secure Alex's future. Will everyone at North Oak still want to offer her a home when they learn of her unspeakable crime? YEARLING : A new year has come to North Oak, and with it a new life for Alexandra Anderson. Still haunted by Ashley’s brutal death, Alex worries she won’t seem grateful if she’s unhappy. To make it worse, Promenade has been nominated to the Keeneland Yearling Sale. She’s going to lose everything… again. It’s too painful to let love in and easier to be angry at the world for her abusive past than to let it go. Easier to put up walls so no one knows she’s hurting. Will Alex be able to open her heart to others when its still battling personal demons? Or will she go so deep into herself that no one can reach her? MORNING GLORY : When a terrible accident shakes the Showmans, Alex finds herself questioning her place in the family. Feeling like a second class citizen, she turns once again to find her solace in horse racing. With a new filly to manage with Brooke, and Venus Galaxies's first foal on the way, the girls must rely on each other to make things work out. But will a handsome, foreign newcomer split them apart once again? On the heels of Joanna Campbell’s beloved Thoroughbred Series, and Walter Farley’s Black Stallion, comes a brand new young adult horse racing series that will sweep you away like a runaway Thoroughbred. Read more