Riding Freedom

Description:

A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive new author treatment. In this fast-paced, courageous, and inspiring story, readers adventure with Charlotte Parkhurst as she first finds work as a stable hand, becomes a famous stage-coach driver (performing brave feats and outwitting bandits), finds love as a woman but later resumes her identity as a man after the loss of a baby and the tragic death of her husband, and ultimately settles out west on the farm she'd dreamed of having since childhood. It wasn't until after her death that anyone discovered she was a woman.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Juvenile fiction,  Mistaken identity,  Identification,  Novela juvenil,  Spanish language materials,  General,  Action & Adventure - General,  Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General,  1850-1950,  California,  Parkhurst, Charley,,  d. 1879,  Children: Grades 2-3,  Spanish: Grades 4-7,  Children's fiction,  California, fiction,  Orphanages, fiction,  Runaways, fiction,  Sex role, fiction,  Horses, fiction

People: Charley Parkhurst (d. 1879),  Charlotte,  Charley Parkhurst (1812-1879)

Places: California

Times: 1850-1950