52 Books in 52 Weeks - Book 6: The Horse and His Boy

This story takes place during the reign of the High King Peter, King Edmund, and Queens Susan and Lucy in Narnia. It follows the adventures of a boy named Shasta, and a talking Narnian horse named Bree. Shasta lives in the land of Calormen, south of Narnia, with a man that he believes is his father. One night, his father is visited by a traveling Tarkaan & Shasta overhears them discussing a transaction - the sale of Shasta to this Tarkaan. Shasta also learns that his "father" found him as an infant, in a boat that washed ashore. Shasta retreats to the stable, wondering what will become of him, and encounters the Tarkaan's horse, Bree. Bree stuns Shasta by talking to him and then, together they devise a plan for the two of them to escape together to Narnia. Shasta has always felt a pull toward the North and a longing to know what lay in the lands north of the grassy slope beyond which he has never been allowed to travel. Shasta and Bree escape that night, start off on an adventure that will eventually result in them delivering Narnia from invasion.

Sojourner