Carlota - Hardcover

O'Dell, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395254876 ISBN 13: 9780395254875

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1977

Synopsis

A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between the Californians and Americans.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Raised to take the place of her dead brother, Carlota de Zubaran can do anything that Carlos could have done. She races her stallion through the California lowlands, dives into shark-infested waters searching for gold, and fights in the battles that rage between the Mexicans and the Americans. At sixteen, she is fearless--and that pleases her father very much.

Yet while Carlota throughly enjoys her freedom, she wants to be more than her father's "son." She wants to be herself, brave and courageous but free to show feelings of tenderness and compassion as well. Her father thinks such feelings are shameful, so Carlota must defy him. That will be the most difficult battle of all.

About the Author:

Scott O'Dell was born in Los Angeles, California, on May 23, 1898. He attended Occidental College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stanford University, and University of Rome. He worked as a technical director for Paramount, a cameraman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and a book editor of a Los Angeles newspaper before serving in the United States Air Force during World War II. The recipient of numerous book awards, he established the Scott O'Dell award for historical fiction in 1981. He died on October 15, 1989.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0395254876
• ISBN 13: 9780395254875
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 153