Hoofbeats

Description:

In 1773, twelve-year-old Silence works to please her mother through household chores and weekly etiquette lessons in hopes of spending time with her beloved horse, Lily, while the men of Boston, including her Loyalist father and brother, discuss a possible war over taxation without representation.

subjects: Fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  Horses,  Boston Tea Party, 1773,  Slavery,  Indentured servants,  History,  Boston Tea Party, 1773 in fiction,  Family life,  Family life in fiction,  Horses in fiction,  Indentured servants in fiction,  Slavery in fiction,  Family,  Families,  Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773,  Children's fiction,  Horses, fiction,  United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Boston tea party, 1773, fiction,  Slavery, fiction,  Boston (mass.), fiction

Places: Boston,  Boston (Mass.),  Massachusetts

Times: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775