Dawn Rider

by Jan Hudson and Jan Hudson

Book Overview

Kit Fox's sixteenth year with her people, the Bloods, is filled with preparations for an important buffalo run, talk of her older sister's coming marriage, and skirmishes with their traditional enemy the Snakes.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590449877
• ISBN13: 9780590449878
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.1" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

a book from my past

I loved this book when I was young, and I still really appreciate how it presents Kit Fox's world in a way that seems so honest- the charecters really seem like people we would know instead of culturally different charecters. Its one of the few kids books about native americans that I (an anthropologist to boot) can re-read without cringing, which is pretty high praise for any children's book!

a great book

Kit Fox visits a horse her tribe took from the snake indians(their enemy) in the mornings before everyone's awake. When she is found out she isnt allowed to visit the horse again. Then, when their enemy threatens to ambush her tribe, Kit Fox must race against time to get help.

Danger and self discovery

Kit, a young Blackfoot girl, feels like she can't do anything because of the social taboos the tribe has for young women. When warriors bring back a horse, the first of its kind the tribe has ever had, driven by her curiosity she secretly visits the horse with the help of her friend and eventually learns how to ride it. Caught in the act she is banned from visiting the horse much less riding it. But when the tribe is in danger it is up to her to ride for help and defy all the rules.