Gabriel's Horses

By Alison Hart

Subjects: Fathers and sons, Racism, Horse racing, Plantations, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Slavery, fiction, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Horses, fiction, Kentucky, fiction, Horses, Slavery, Preteen boys, Fiction, Children's fiction, Horse racing, fiction, Twelve-year-old boys, Juvenile fiction, History, Soldiers, African American boys, Race relations, Horse stealing

Description: In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.