Mending Horses
by M.P. Barker
A poetic and critically acclaimed historical novel set in 1840s New England that... read more
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Women / Girls
Year Published 2014
Word Count 97,739
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 870L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 174815
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Health
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Orphans--Fiction
- Irish Americans
- Prejudices
- Peddlars
- Orphans
- Child abuse
- Prejudices--Fiction
- Sex role
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 19th Century
- Child abuse--Fiction
- New England--History--1775-1865--Fiction
- Peddlers--Fiction
- Sex role--Fiction
- New England
- History
- Irish Americans--Fiction
- 1775-1865
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