4.4.2 Riding Freedom 4-Pack

This book is the on-level title in the 4.4 Book Club Teacher's Guide. Students will continue to think about the theme of westward expansion and the pioneering spirit. Warning: This book will make teachers cry!

Blurb: Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in an orphanage for boys, which suited her just fine. She didn’t like playing with dolls, she could hold her own in a fight, and she loved to work in the stable. Charlotte had a special way with horses and wanted to spend her life training and riding them on a ranch of her own.

The problem was, as a girl in the mid-1800’s, Charlotte was expected to live a much different life – one without the freedoms she dreamed of. But Charlotte was smart and determined, and she figured out a way to live her life the way she wanted.

Charlotte became an expert horse rider, a legendary stagecoach driver, and the first woman ever to vote in the U.S. And she did these things at a time when they were outlawed for women. How? With a plan so clever and so secret – almost no one figured it out.

Lexile Level: 720

Page Count: 144