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Coal black horse Cover Image Book

Coal black horse / Robert Olmstead.

Olmstead, Robert. (Author).

Summary:

When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781565125216
  • ISBN: 1565125215
  • Physical Description: 218 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.

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Target Audience Note:
1110L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.7 11 116383.

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Subject: Fathers and sons > Fiction.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

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