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Chance of a lifetime

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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Main Author:	Kent, Deborah
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Kingfisher, 2005.
Series:	Saddles, stars & stripes
Subjects:	Mississippi > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Juvenile fiction. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Juvenile fiction. Slavery > Juvenile fiction. Morgan horse > Juvenile fiction. Horses > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	172 p. ; 19 cm.
ISBN:	0753458845
Author Notes:	Deborah Kent has written eighteen young adult novels and more than fifty children's nonfiction titles. She has published three other books with Kingfisher in the Saddles, Stars & Stripes series: Chance of a Lifetime, Blackwater Creek, Riding the Pony Express. A graduate of Oberlin College and Smith College, Debra now lives in Chicago with her daughter and husband, the children's author R. Conrad Stein.