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    <body><![CDATA[This historical fiction book is based on Parkhurst's life and experiences. Although this book has a slow (and tragic) beginning, it picks up speed as it moves along. Charlotte was raised as an orphan with all boys. She eventually ran away and spent her life disguised as a man. Because she was disgui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23942137">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this with my son as part of a school assignment. It was wonderful. Based on a true story - I love those. Well written and great messages. I love books where everything works out in the end after a lot of adversity.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Riding Freedom</em> by Pam Munoz Ryan is based on the true story of Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst, a strong, independent young woman who made her way in a world of men in the mid-1800s. She lost her parents when she was just a toddler and lived her early life in an orphanage filled with boys. She quickly be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70064951">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great! It's about a girl named Charlotte who was raised in an orphanage for boys. She has a love for horses and helping out in the stables (where the horses stay) at the orphanage. The orphanage is run by this awful guy, Mr. Millshark, who bans Charlotte from working in the stables beca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51569863">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[3.5 stars. I enjoyed reading this story, which is based on the true story of Charlotte Parkhurst, a female who pretended to be male in order to be able to do what she wanted in the early 1800s.  It's a cute story that girls should be able to relate to quite easily and anyone who is into horses will ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42564887">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the book kind of reminded me the movie She's the Man.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Charlotte's parents both die when lightning startles the horses that are pulling their carriage. Since she has no other relatives, Charlotte is sent to an orphanage for boys - the only one around. As a young girl, she loves working in the stables and racing the horses until a jealous boy from town s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76310889">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Charlortte Parkhurst was a girl that was basicly a tom boy she fought with boys,she loves climbing trees and she works in a stable.I learned that girls can do basicly anything a guys can do,because there were really no girls that had passion for riding horses like her and can do it way better than t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72068974">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>My older cousin had been cleaning through her room, and had stumbled upon this book. She didn't want it anymore and had given it to me. I had at first thought, &quot;Oh a horse book, great.&quot; But once I started reading this, it was incredibly captivating. I loved this book all the way thro...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because my horse-loving dd did.  I really enjoyed the story, and it's a quick read.  What impressed me the most was that when I got to the end, I learned that it was a fictionalized biography of a real person in the mid-1800's.  That made all that had happened in the book (because t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52516779">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the books that I read when I didn't like to read at all, and I really liked it. It has great characters and it is a wonderful story that is well written too. I thought it was a great book to find  myself reading,  and liking it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a really lovable story of a girl who has a passion for horses. She was a orphan who ran away and cut her hair to look like a boy, and got a job taking peple around in a carriage thing pulled by a team of six horses.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ This is my favorite childhood book. I read this book twice and I never got tired of it. I love how the main characeters passion for horses never changed during the whole book even though her life changed!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[so i had an afternoon to kill at the laundry mat.  I READ THE WHOLE BOOK!!!  loved it!!!  i put it in both non and historical because it's a true story, but the author took some liberties]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best book ever! Hannah and I read this one to pieces in LE. I love this book. If you have not read this, you are living an incomplete life. I heart this book!]]></body>
    
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