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• Maya: Main character, loves horses and in the beginning she lives with her grandmother. She grew up learning lies about her life. She also has lived a very sheltered life.
• Aunt Vi: Maya's Aunt who works at the university. She runs a horse camp for children and photographers.
• Artimeshia: A wild mustang whom Maya is entranced by.

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• “Tonight you are a guest tomorrow is a different story.”

  Aunt Vi

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• Sweetwater
• Georgia
• Wyoming
• Pasadena

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• Appaloosa: A breed of horse famed for its spotted coat.
• Arabian: A breed of horse distinquished by a small, concave yet delicate head and a long, arched neck.
• Audubon, John James (1785-1851): American Wildlife artist, famous for his depictions of the birds of North America.
• Barrel: The rounded sides of a horse, formed by the ribs.
• Bay: A reddish or dark brown horse with a black mane, legs, and tail.
• Belly Loop: A loop of rope around the barrel of a horse (under which the knees of a rider can be tucked and secured). Historically, used to ride bareback. In certain regions, it is sometimes referred to as a Comanche Coil.
• Bit: The mouthpiece of a bridle.
• Blaze: A facial marking on a horse, characterized by a wide swath of white running from the forehead to the muzzle.
• Blue Roan: A horse with a black mane and tail, and black and white hairs throughout the coat, which give it a blue-gray tint.
• Bridle: A harness for the horse's head, usually meaning the headstall, bit, and reins.
• Buckskin: A horse with a coat the color of soft, yellowish leather, with a black mane and tail.
• Cassatt, Mary (1845-1926): American painter whose parents objected to her decision to become an artist. She went on the become famous for her work with pastels. She is noted for depicting the lives of women and for her poignant portrayals of the mother-and-child relationship.
• Catlin, George (1796-1872): American painter known for his portraits of Native Americans.
• Cinch: A strap that goes under the barrel of the horse to secure the saddle.
• Colt: A young male horse not more than four years old.
• Corral: An enclosure for horses.
• Currycomb: A flat, nubby comb, usually round or oval shaped, for lossening dirt on a horse's coat.
• Dandy Brush: A brush, often elongated, used for making sweeping strokes across the horse's coat in order to dislodge dust and dirt.
• Dun: A tan-colored horse, usually with a black mane. My have circular stripes around its legs and a stripe down its spine.
• Equine: A horse or pertaining to a horse.
• Equus Caballus: The Latin species name for horse.
• Filly: A young female horse not more than four years old.
• Gait: The method in which a horse moves, for example: walk, jog, lope, gallop.
• Gallop: The fastest gait, about 25 to 30 miles per hour. In the wild, horses gallop when fleeing from predators or danger to get from one place to another quickly. During the course of each stride, all four feet are off the ground.
• Gather: A roundup of horses by horse wrangles or mustangers.
• Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-1653): Italkian painter of the early Baroque period. She pursued her art during a time when the artistic community did not embrace or encourage the efforts of female artists.
• Grulla: A grayish-colored horse, usually with a dark mane and a stripe down its spine.
• Harem Band: A group of female horses that may include their fillies and colts (until they are two or three years old). A harem band is dominated by a stallion who does not allow any other mature male horses access to the group.
• Hock: The joints in the hind legs of a horse, which correspond, more or less, to the knees in the front legs of the horse.
• Homer, Winslow (1836-1910): American painter, known and revered for his seascapes.
• Hoof Pick: A curved pick used to remove debris impacted within a horseshoe on a shod horse.
• Jog: A two-beat gait. At a jog, a horse travels about 6 to 8 miles per hour, about the same speed a human can run. A slow jog is easy to sit without bouncing, but during a fast jog, most riders "post", raising themselves up and down out of the saddle, in rythm with the horse. In English disciplines, the jog is called the trot.
• Klee, Paul (1879-1940): Swiss artist who worked with many types of media, including oil, watercolor, and ink. His arti is considered difficult to classify because it has elements of many styles, including cubism, surrealism, and expressionism.
• Latigo: A strap on the saddletree of a Western saddle used to secure the cinch.
• Lope: A three-beat gait, about 8-10 miles per hour. The more extended foreleg is called "the lead". In English disciplines, the lopoe is called the canter.
• Lunge or Lungeing: Training or exercising a horse, usually, on a long lead rope, by standing in the center of an imaginary circle and cueing the horse to move around you in different gaits.
• Mare: A mature female horse.
• Mustang: A wild horse.
• Muzzle: The mouth, jaws, and nose of a horse.
• Neigh: Also called a whinny. Usually used by horses to let others know where they are or when calling to a horse from which they've been separated.
• Nicker: A gentle call often used as a greating to herd mates and sometimes to humans with whom a horse is farmiliar.
• O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986): American artist noted for her symbolic depictions of landscapes, flowers, shells, and animal bones.
• Overo: A horse with the overo pattern can have predominantly dark or light hair. Usually, all four legs are dark and any white markings are irregular and spattered-looking. Generally, the head markings are white, such as a bald-faced horse.
• Paint: Paint horses have the confirmation of a quater horse. It is believed that Paints are descendants of the mounts brought to what is now the American West by the Spanish canquistadors. Reverd by the Native Americans for their rigor, calm disposition, and reputed magical powers, they have also been respected by cowboys and ranchers for their diligence and ability to move cattle. Tpically, a paint horse has tobino or overo markings.
• Palomino: A white, tan, or golden color horse with ivory mane and tail.
• Quater Horse or American Quater Horse: A breed evolved form crossing the bloodlines of Native American horses with horses of the earliest colonists form England. The quater horse was so named because it could run a quater of a mile faster than any other breed. It's considered a sturdy horse with a quiet temperament and is used in many disciplines.
• Reins: The leather straps attached to either side of a bit, by which a rider controls, curbs, or guides a horse.
• Remington, Frederic (1861-1909): American painter, sculptor, and illustrator who specialized in scenes of the American Wast and is notably remembered for his work in bronze statuettes.
• Remuda: A group of horses from which a mount is chosen for the day and then possibly changed out on the next ride.
• Rigging Ring: A ring, similar to a belt buckle, on the end of the cinch through wich the latigo is threaded and locked into place.
• Russell, Charels M. (1864-1926): American illustrator and painter of the American West, famous fot his realistic scenes of cowboys, Native Americans, landscapes, and galloping horses. Also known for his bronze scupltures.
• Saddle Pads: Soft coverings designed to protect the horse's back when saddled.
• Saddlebred: A gaited breed nhoted for carrying heads high. Their bodies are usually slender and agile.
• Saddletree: The frame of a saddle, usually wooden or fiberglass.
• Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925): American painter considered the most talented portrait artist of his time. Also known for his landscapes. His work as solictied by serveral presidents.
• Seltzer, Olaf (1877-1957): American artist whose talent was evident when he was as young as twelve years old. His art depicts the American West: cowboys, the wildlife of the Plains, Native Americans, and often common people, including the immigrants.
• Sorrel: A standered sorrel horsehas an orange body with an orange mane and tail. Also called chestnut.
• Stallion: A male horse capable of breeding.
• Stirrups: Supports hanging from the saddle to hold a rider's feet.
• Tack: To put a bridle and saddle on a horse in preparation to ride.
• Tobiano: A horse with the tobiano pattern is usually distinguished by two colors: white and a darker color. Darker spots are distictly oval or rounded and edtend down the chest and neck in a shieldlike pattern. Usually, the legs are white below the hocks and knees. A tobiano horse will often have the dark color on one of both flanks. The tail can be two colors.
• Walk: A slow and steady four-beat gait where the horse travels about 3to 4 miles per hour.
• Wilson, Charels Banks (b. 1918): American artist who began his career as a book illustrator. Noted for his portaits of Native Americans as well as historical scenes of the American Southwest.
• Withers: The base of a horse's neck, the highest part of its back.
• Wrangler: A cowboy, or someone on horseback who rounds up livestock .
• Wyeth, N. C. (1882-1945): American painter acclaimed for his still lifes, landscapes, and Americana murals and illustrations. He illustrated more than twenty-fie books, including editions of The Yearling, Robinson Crusoe, Robin Hood, Kidnapped, and Treasure Island.

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Preceded by Marley, and followed by Iron Thunder.

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1. Pam Munoz Ryan (Author)

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