The Night Ride

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  Also by J. Anderson Coats

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Text © 2021 by J. Anderson Coats

  Jacket illustration © 2021 by Abigail Dela Cruz

  Jacket design by Debra Sfetsios-Conover © 2021 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Coats, J. Anderson (Jillian Anderson), author.

  Title: The Night Ride / J. Anderson Coats.

  Description: First edition. | New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2021] | Audience: Ages 8 to 12. | Summary: Saving her coppers to buy a beloved horse that has been transferred to the royal stables of the king of Mael Dunn, new stablehand Sonnia must compete in a dangerous, highly illegal Night Ride to protect her horse.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2020046452 | ISBN 9781534480773 (hardcover) |

  ISBN 9781534480797 (ebook)

  Subjects: CYAC: Horses—Fiction.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.1.C62 Ni 2021 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020046452