Riding Freedom - Brossura

Ryan, Pam Muoz

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0439087961 ISBN 13: 9780439087964

Casa editrice: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1999

Riassunto

Provides the real-life tale of twelve-year-old Charlotte Parkhurst who decided to change her identity in order to live life as a boy so that she could experience the many freedoms and liberties denied to her as a girl in the late 1860s. Reprint.

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Recensione

"With a pacing that moves along at a gallop, this is a skillful execution of a fascinating historical tale." –Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Middle-schoolers will love the horse adventures and the stories of her trickery..."
--Booklist

"Youngsters who liked Caddie Woodlawn better unreformed and who appreciate an atmospheric blend of grit, gorses, and history will want to take a ride with Charley." –Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

L'autore

Pam Munoz Ryan is the recipient of the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Award and the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for multicultural literature. She has written more than thirty books which have garnered, among countless accolades, the Pura Belpre Medal, the Jane Addams Award, and the Schneider Family Award. Pam lives near San Diego. You can visit her at www.pammunozryan.com.

In addition to The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick is the illustrator of the Caldecott Honor winner, The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, and The New York Times Best Illustrated Walt Whitman: Words for America, both by Barbara Kerley, as well as the Sibert Honor Winner When Marian Sang, by Pam Muñoz Ryan, and numerous other celebrated picture books and novels. Brian has also worked as a set designer and a puppeteer. When he isn’t traveling to promote his work all over the world, he lives in San Diego, California, and Brooklyn, New York.

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• Editore: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0439087961
• ISBN 13: 9780439087964
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 138
• Disegnatore: Selznick Brian