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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 by Diane Lee Wilson
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The text for this book is set in Old Times American.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wilson, Diane L.
Firehorse / Diane Lee Wilson.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-1551-5
ISBN-10:1-4169-1551-6 (hardcover)
eISBN-13: 978-1-4424-0335-2
[1. Veterinary medicine—Fiction. 2. Sex role—Fiction. 3. Horses-Fiction. 4. Arson—Fiction. 5, Family life-Massachusetts—Fiction, a Boston (Mass.)-History-186&-Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W69059Fir 2006
[Fic]-dc22
2005030785