The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3)

241 pp. "Narnia... where horses talk and hermits like company, where evil men turn into donkeys, where boys go into battle... and where the adventure begins. During the Golden Age of Narnia, when Peter is High King, a boy named Shasta discovers he is not the son of Arsheesh, the Carlormene fisherman, and decides to run far away to the North -- to Narnia. When he is mistaken for another runaway, Shasta is led to discover who he really is and ever finds his real father."