Tennessee Rose (Horse Diaries #9)

by Jane Kendall (Author) Astrid Sheckels (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Horse Diaries
Alabama, 1856. Tennessee Rose is a dark bay Tennessee Walking Horse with a rose-shaped marking on her forehead. She loves dashing around the plantation in the running walk that her breed is famous for, then coming back to her comfortable stall and her friend Levi, the slave boy who is her groom. But as the Civil War approaches, Rosie begins to question plantation life. Is slavery fair? Could Levi be free? Like Black Beauty, this moving novel is told in first person from the horse's point of view and includes an appendix full of photos and facts about Tennessee Walking Horses and the Civil War.
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Jane Kendall
JANE KENDALL is the author of Horse Diaries #4: Maestoso Petra, as well as many other titles. She has also illustrated more than two dozen children's books. Jane has been a senior writer for Greenwich Magazine since 1992. She has written for The New York Times on film history and teaches a college-level writing course for the Institute of Children's Literature. She was an enthusiastic rider growing up, and on one memorable occasion went Christmas caroling on horseback.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375870064
Lexile Measure
890
Guided Reading Level
R
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication date
August 20, 2012
Series
Horse Diaries
BISAC categories
JUV011010 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
JUV016200 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
JUV002130 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Horses
Library of Congress categories
History
United States
Slavery
Civil War, 1861-1865
1775-1865
Southern states
Horses
Tennessee walking horse

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