The Longest Ride

By Denise Lewis Patrick and Denise Lewis-Patrick

At fifteen, Midnight Son has already lived quite a courageous life. He has escaped bounty hunters intent on returning him to slavery and has survived a fierce tornado. It seems no challenge is insurmountable for this young cowboy. But when Midnight Son comes upon a vulnerable Indian village during the journey to find his separated family, he knows he must delay his search in order to help his new friends get safely through the final days of the Civil War. In this companion to The Adventures of Midnight Son , Denise Lewis Patrick tells a powerful coming-of-age story about a young man who discovers the true meaning of responsibility, bravery, and honor in the face of adversity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805047158
• ISBN13: 9780805047158
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.7" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 9

Customer Reviews

This was an incredible story with great details.

Once I started the story I could not put the book down! I had it read in a day. The details put you there with the characters. I could almost feel the intense moments they went through at times. The only disappointment was at the end, is there a sequel to it. Denise Lewis Patrick is an excellent writer. I look forward to reading more of her books.

The Longest Ride's First Reveiw

I thought this book was very interesting, and I didn't even read the first book. This book's introduction brings you to where the first book really didn't have to happen, as if this were the first book. I had to read this book for an assignment at school and thought of reading it as more of a chore than a pleasure, but once the book gets going, it's pretty dang hard to put down. This book is about an escaped slave boy, Midnight Son, and his friend, Lou Boy, who is not colored. Midnight falls asleep in some snow after a cattle drive and is rescued by a few Arapaho Indians. They bring him to their run-down, make-shift camp, where he meets Winter Mary. Winter Mary's mother, Raven Woman, was also an escaped slave. Winter Mary also had a brother, Eagle Eye. Midnight refuses to go warn the main Indian village of an attack, so Eagle Eye goes to do it himself. After the attack, Midnight, Winter Mary, and Lou Boy find Eagle Eye, and then they carry out Raven Woman's wishes for Midnight to go find her family. Although Midnight does not find Raven Woman's family in this book, he does go on with Winter Mary, Lou Boy, and Eagle Eye to try to find his long lost sister, Lady, who had been sold to another family at an early age, his two sisters, Queen and Truth, and his mother. On his way to find them, he goes back to the place where they worked as slaves. The slaves remaining because their owner hadn't told them that the north had won the civil war and ended slavery told him that one day his father left and they never saw him again. He then continues on to try to find his family with his friends.