C. S. Lewis 
The Horse and His Boy 

In The Horse and His Boy, two children of Calormene: Shasta, a slave boy and Aravis a rich girl, join up with two talking horses of Narnia in a bid to escape their lives in Calormene. Set during the reign of King Peter, Shasta and Aravis cross paths with Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy and quickly become mixed up in a war between Narnia and Calormene. With the fearsome aid of Aslan, will the children save Susan from a marriage to the cruel Prince Rabadash of Calormene? The fifth book of the Chronicles of Narnia, it was first published in 1954.

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C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University and Cambridge University but is best known for his works of fiction-such as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Space Trilogy, and The Screwtape Letters-and for his nonfiction-such as Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, and The Problem of Pain-which still continue to attract thousands of new readers every year.