Ghost Horses (An Avon Camelot Book) - Softcover

Hill, Pamela Smith

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9780380729425: Ghost Horses (An Avon Camelot Book)

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ISBN 10: 0380729423 ISBN 13: 9780380729425

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999

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Ever since sixteen-year-old Tabitha Fortune was a child growing up in Rim, South Dakota, she's heard stories about ghost horses-nightmare creatures whose giant bones haunt the sandstone cliffs near the Badlands. When paleontologist Dr. Phineas X. Parker announces plans to dig for these bones, Tabitha vows to join his crew.

But this is 1899, and the world has different expectations for young women. Tabitha's preacher father urges her to abandon her interest in science. "Pray for a godly husband", he lectures, "not a godless education." Even Dr. Parker discourages Tabitha, saying, "Vertebrate paleontology is no place for a lady." That leaves Tabitha with just one choice-and being a "lady" has nothing to do with it.

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About the Author:

Pamela Smith Hill was born in Springfield, Missouri, where she developed her long-abiding interest in the Civil War. After receiving a master's degree in English literature from the University of South Dakota, she began a career in advertising and public relations that led to teaching posts at universities in Colorado and Oregon. Ms. Hill now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her family. She is also the author of Ghost Horses.

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Gr. 6^-9. Set in the late nineteenth century just as skeletal remains of dinosaurs are being discovered in the western part of the U.S., Ghost Horses is a fascinating, fictionalized look at many of the social and scientific issues of that period in our nation's history. Tabitha Fortune is a 16-year-old rebelling against her preacher-father's God-fearing perspective of science in general and women in particular. Determined to take part in an expedition digging for dinosaur remains near her hometown in the Badlands, she defies her father, perfecting her already adequate equestrian and rifle skills, and disguises herself as a young man. She bristles when she finds that she has signed on with a scientist who espouses the same views of women as her father, but she so longs to be a part of the dig that she holds her tongue. This multilayered first novel is fast paced and intriguing, one that will quickly become an easy, word-of-mouth sell, though it will probably require an initial push from a librarian or teacher. Frances Bradburn

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