- Children's fiction, Ponies, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Virginia, fiction
Nobody could capture the Phantom. She was the wildest mare on Assateague Island. They said she was like the wind, that the white "map" on her shoulders was her mark of freedom. Paul and Maureen Beebe had their hearts set on owning her.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Marguerite Henry
- First published
- January 1920
- Pages
- 173
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Children's Press (CT)
- Editions
- 74
- Language
- Spanish, und, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780689804076
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“A WILD, ringing neigh shrilled up from the hold of the Spanish galleon.”
Marguerite Henry was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the youngest of the five children. At age 6 she became sick with rheumatic fever and remained bedridden for six years, unable to attend school. She spent her days reading and writing. Her first story was published when she was 11 years old. After highschool she attended Milwaukee State Teachers College. In 1923, she married. She and her husband lived in Wayne, Illinois. In 1945, Henry received the Newbery honor for *Justin Morgan Had a Horse*. She began collaborating with artist Wesley Dennis, who went on to illustrate 15 of her books. In 1947, she published her most famous book, *Misty of Chincoteague*. In 1949 she received the Newbery Meda
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