Recommended for ages 7+. Based on an award-winning novel, Pit Pony authentically recreates a turn-of-the-century Nova Scotia mining town where a young boy's options are limited. When an accident in the coal mine strikes his brother and father, young Willie MacLean is forced to give up school to work underground. In the darkness of the mine, Willie finds strength in a feisty wild pony and a friendly Scottish miner who takes an interest in his welfare. A Dickensian tale with an uplifting resolution, it is an extraordinary story of one boy who handles both hardship and triumph with the courage and grace of a true hero.