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  • Maestoso Petra (Horse Diaries #4)

Maestoso Petra
(Horse Diaries #4)

Author
Jane Kendall
Illustrator
Ruth Sanderson
Publication Date
March 09, 2010
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Maestoso Petra (Horse Diaries #4)
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Description
Maestoso Petra is a world-famous Lipizzaner stallion. He has spent years in the Spanish Riding School, training to perform the complex airs above the ground that only Lipizzaner can accomplish. But when World War II breaks out in Europe, he learns to think less about performing and more about survival.
Publication date
March 09, 2010
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375858420
Lexile Measure
980
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Series
Horse Diaries
BISAC categories
JUV016080 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Military & Wars
JUV016040 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Europe
JUV002130 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Horses
Library of Congress categories
History
World War, 1939-1945
Horses
1938-1945
Austria
Horsemanship
Lipizzaner horse
Spanische Reitschule (Vienna, Austria)
Spanish Riding School (Vienna, Austria)
Jane Kendall
JANE KENDALL is the author of Horse Diaries #4: Maestoso Petra, as well as many other titles. She has also illustrated more than two dozen children's books. Jane has been a senior writer for Greenwich Magazine since 1992. She has written for The New York Times on film history and teaches a college-level writing course for the Institute of Children's Literature. She was an enthusiastic rider growing up, and on one memorable occasion went Christmas caroling on horseback.
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