The Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy by Griffin, Kitty

The Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781416928164)

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The Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy by Griffin, Kitty

The Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy

$17.99
The Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy by Griffin, Kitty

The Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy

$17.99
Format: Hardcover
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One brave girl, one strong pony, one desperate ride to deliver a crucial message that would change the course of American history. Betsy is the girl power answer to Paul Revere.

Repeated for over two hundred years as an oral tradition, the legend of Betsy Dowdy is a classic American tale of a girl who simply believed she could be free. Inspired by the danger and daring of this ordinary North Carolinian girl, THE RIDE is a story about stepping up to help the cause you believe in, doing even what little you can, and building the United States of America.

Author: Kitty Griffin
ISBN-10: 1416928162
ISBN-13: 9781416928164
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2010
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.30h x 11.20w x 0.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.3
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 137060 / Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy


Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 29
Booklist 07/01/2010 pg. 68
Publishers Weekly 07/12/2010
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2010
School Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 76
By Kitty Griffin
By Kitty Griffin
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Kitty Griffin was born in Germany and adopted by Americans. She has traveled from one end of the USA to the other, living at twenty-eight different "permanent" addresses, with much of her childhood spent in Virginia. She has worked as a counselor, a mailman, a waitress, a secretary, and, of course, as a children's book author. She teaches in the MFA Writing for Children program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA. She lives in Washington County, Pennsylvania with her husband and assorted furry friends. She can also be found at www.kittygriffin.com.

Marjorie Priceman, illustrator of many acclaimed picture books, has won Caldecott Honors for her illustrations in Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin! by Lloyd Moss and Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the Frist Hot-Air Balloon Ride, which she also wrote. She lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

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