This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2011 by Catherine Hapka
Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Ruth Sanderson
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hapka, Cathy.
Yatimah / Catherine Hapka ; illustrated by Ruth Sanderson. — 1st ed.
p.    cm. — (Horse diaries; [6])
Summary: In a mid-ninth-century Bedouin camp in the Arabian Desert, a horse is born to a prized Arabian war mare who dies during the birth, and the foal is raised with dreams of continuing her mother’s glory as a war mare. Includes facts about Arabian horses and their importance to Bedouin tribes.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89764-1
1. Arabian horse—Juvenile fiction. [1. Arabian horse—Fiction. 2. War horses—Fiction. 3. Horses—Fiction. 4. Bedouins—Fiction. 5. Middle East—History—9th century—Fiction.] I. Sanderson, Ruth, ill. II. Title.
PZ10.3.H2258Yat 2010 [Fic]—dc22   2009053906

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