Riding Freedom | Overview
Frustrated by the rules restricting her from horses and the domestic labor she is expected to perform at a nineteenth-century New Hampshire orphanage, Charlotte Parkhurst aspires to run away from controlling authority figures. Her talent with horses provides her a means to escape and seek freedom and adventure. Although she makes friends, Parkhurst relies on herself to survive injury and overcome obstacles when she moves west to California. Because females at that time had few legal rights, Charlotte disguises herself as a boy named Charley to pursue her goals of buying land and...
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What is Charlotte's parents name?
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In the book Riding Freedom where does Charlotte go with the other boys...
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she wanted to get away and make her own life.
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What did the banker say to Charlotte that was ironic?
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