To Race a Dream

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 09:45:18 -0700

Theodora "Theo" Harris, a 16-years-old girl who strives for her dream of horses. She would do anything just to get close to horses, drive them, work with them. But in Theo's time of 1906, women aren't allowed to work with horses, drive them, and other stuff. At her home, her older sister, Claudia who was 19; already so successful in music, playing the violin. Theo often feels lost every-time when she around her sister. Her parents, Maud and Steveson but Maud often paid a lot of attention to Claudia more than she does it to Theo. Theo's friend, Carl Johansson who worked as a rag boy at the barn who also a school friend. Carl is a reason of Theo finally being able to work at the barn, being close to horses but only dressed as a boy. So Theo living a lie but finally told a truth in nearly ending of the book. She also met few stable workers; a rat killer Amon Szabo, Mr. O'Leary, Mr. Marion Willis Savage, a owner of famous horse, Dan Patch of who Theo really loved, and few others. Things suddenly feels like its changed when Claudia contacted polio, causing her to be bedridden for nearly a month. Theo saw her aunt, Harriet Kerr, a doctor who helped Claudia to get well again. And Carl had revealed that he actually liked Theo and loved the stories that Theo had wrote. - Happy Reading!