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Synopsis
Riding Freedom is the recipient of Parenting Magazine 's Reading Magic Award for 1998's Most Outstanding Children's Books and the San Francisco Chronicle 's Best Books of 1998. It has been nominated for the 1999-2000 California Young Reader Medal and the 1999-2000 North Dakota Flicker Tale (also a young reader program where the children vote).
Publishers Weekly
PW's starred review called this fictionalized biography of equestrian Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst--who lived her life disguised as a man and was the first woman voter in the U.S.--an "ebullient and tautly structured novel that moves along at a gallop." Ages 8-12. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.