The Jockey & Her Horse (Once Upon a Horse #2)

by Sarah Maslin Nir (Author) Laylie Frazier (Illustrator)

The Jockey & Her Horse (Once Upon a Horse #2)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade

Following in the hoofprints of The Flying Horse, Pulitzer Prize nominee Sarah Maslin Nir and Raymond White Jr.'s The Jockey & Her Horse is the second title in the Once Upon a Horse series. Illustrated with black-and-white art by Laylie Frazier, it is inspired by the true story of the first Black female jockey, Cheryl White, who raced to the finish line on her horse, Jetolara.

Cheryl loves horses. She's been studying thoroughbreds at her family's horse-racing stables since she was old enough to ride on the shoulders of her father, a famous horse trainer. Cheryl wants to be a jockey. One problem--she is a girl, and there has never been a Black female jockey in history!

Jetolara is a young thoroughbred finding his place in the herd. When Cheryl literally falls onto his back and Jeto sprints off across the pasture, Cheryl discovers that she doesn't just want to be a jockey, she is a jockey--and she and Jeto were born to race. Together, girl and horse make history and show everyone that once you learn to love yourself, the world is yours.

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Review quotes

"Sarah Maslin Nir has drawn on a life in love with horses to craft this wonderful novel based on the girlhood of the first Black woman jockey, Cheryl White. Like White, Nir knows the exhilaration of pounding hooves as well as the profound connection that can form between a horse and rider. This is the kind of history we all should know: a moving story of courage and resilience." —Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
Sarah Maslin Nir
Sarah Maslin Nir is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times reporter and the author of Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal and the Once Upon a Horse series, published by Cameron Kids. She lives and works in New York City. Laylie Frazier is a fine artist and illustrator inspired by the natural world. She lives in Houston, Texas.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781951836696
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Publication date
September 05, 2023
Series
Once Upon a Horse
BISAC categories
JUV011010 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
JUV014000 - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
JUV002130 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Horses
JUV032090 - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Equestrian
Library of Congress categories
Human-animal relationships
African Americans
Horses
JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women
JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Horses
Novels
White, Cheryl
African American jockeys
Women jockeys

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