Gabriel's Horses

By Alison Hart

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

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.