After finishing Becoming Naomi Leon, I decided to read the last book I owned by Pam Munoz Ryan--Riding Freedom. This book is about an orphan named Charlotte who loves horses. She finds a way to escape from her orphanage and eventually becomes a stagecoach driver while disguised as a boy/man for years.
This book was a quick, enjoyable read. It was a fun story, and I was particularly interested when I found out in the "From the Author" at the end that the book is based on a true story--a girl in the 1800s who left her orphanage, who had a successful career in stage coach driving, and who voted in a federal election--and then later came out as being a woman. It's kind of intriguing to think about how few rights women had back then but what a woman could do with her life while pretending to be male.
Rating: * * (2/3 = Liked it)
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