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Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: 2004
ISBN: 0-06-052025-6
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Format Reviewed: Hardcover
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Genre:  Teen / Historical fiction [Age Group: 10 & up]
Reviewed: 2004
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Reviewer Notes:  Patty Foster
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Rider in the Dark  
By Victoria Holmes

     Fifteen year old Helena Roseby is a superb horsewoman, but when her father brings home a beautiful stallion, Oriel, everything in her world changes.

     This coming of age book features plenty of fast paced action with smugglers, a gang of ship wreckers and a horse race. The descriptions of life for a teenage girl are eye-opening for today's young teens. One example is that girls rode horses side saddle and that girls were considered educated if they could run a household.

     Helena is a multi-dimensional character, who develops her own self-worth through a series of events that force her to make choices and realize that things are not always what they seem.