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Away from home during the battle of Vicksburg, fourteen-year-old Jacquetta returns to find her parents gone and the plantation in Yankee hands, but with help from a slave girl, she devises a plan to rescue the family's Morgan horses.
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During the chaos of the Civil War, a fourteen-year-old named Jacquetta must use all her wits to rescue her family's precious Morgan horses from a Yankee-occupied plantation. Kids will love the daring nighttime rescue plan, the surprising alliance with a clever slave girl, and the nail-biting tension of outsmarting enemy soldiers. If your kid likes historical adventures like "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" or animal rescue stories like "The Black Stallion," they'll devour this book. Ideal for middle graders ages 9-12 in grades 4-6 who enjoy historical fiction with action and heart.