A girl helps her father raise horses in Bronze Age Crete, which the other village residents don’t understand until the horses prove themselves during an enemy raid. Last book in author’s Minoan Wings trilogy.
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Cuckoo’s Flight
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Blood Red Horse
12 yo son of an English lord grows up to join King Richard’s crusade in the Holy Land, along with his father and brother and a very special war horse. First in a trilogy
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Heroes, Incredible True Stories of Courageous Animals
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True North
14 yo white Bostonian girl helps an African American runaway slave girl, told in alternating points of view.
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Seabird
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Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
Young woman refuses to be subservient to the patriarchy and moves to the big city to start a business
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The Captive (O’Dell)
16 yo Spanish seminarian travels to New World and encounters the Maya. First in Seven Serpents Trilogy
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Minn of the Mississippi
Minn, a snapping turtle, travels down the Mississippi River observing people and wildlife, with historical and natural details.
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Jessie Benton Fremont: California Pioneer
Fictionalized life of John C. Fremont’s wife, daughter of a prominent senator, supporter of her explorer husband, and editor of his field notes.
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Cruise of the Arctic Star
Author recounts his 1973 fishing boat cruise up CA coast, relating entertaining tidbits of history and natural history
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