Firehorse
By: Diane Lee Wilson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Veterinary medicine -- Fiction; Sex role -- Fiction; Horses -- Fiction; Arson -- Fiction; Family life -- Massachusetts -- Fiction; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 1865- -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.