Ryan, Pam Muñoz.

Riding freedom / written by Pam Muñoz Ryan ; drawings by Brian Selznick. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic Press, 1998. - 138 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.

ISBN: 059095766X (alk. paper)

LCCN: 97018040 /AC

Subjects--Personal Names:
Parkhurst, Charley, d. 1879 --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mistaken identity--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
California--History--Fiction.--1850-1950

LC Class. No.: PZ7.R9553 / Ri 1998

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]