Patricia Harrison Easton
Stable Girl: Working for the Family
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1991.
This covers a day in the life of Danielle, who works in her family's racing stable.
Summer’s Chance
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1988, 150 pp.
14 year old Elizabeth Harter is at her grandmother's for the summer. She has not
seen her grandmother for 11 years,
is trying to find out about the mother she never
knew. Elizabeth bonds only with a horse called Chance. Elizabeth
is not the same
as her mother, and is sure her grandmother is disappointed in her. Linda, a fifteen
year old driver, is
scornful of Elizabeth’s efforts.
Patricia Harrison Easton met her husband when he was her professor at college: Richard Easton, Professor of English asked her out once final grades were in, and they married. She started to write once she had a family of her own, and it took her six years to get published. She grew up on a farm in Western Pennsylvania, showed Quarter Horses, and her family raised Standardbreds, which they used for harness racing, which is the subject of her novels Rebel’s Choice and Summer’s Chance.
Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the pictures.
Finding the books: all the books are very easy to find in the USA. None had an English publication.
Links and sources:
The Pony Book Chronicles on harness racing in horse books
Patricia Harrison Easton at Washington & Jefferson
Bibliography -
Rebel’s Choice
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1989, 153 pp.
Rob Walsh is 16. He hopes that he will be able to work with his father in a horse
business, but his farmily are not
helping. His mother is a workaholic, his father
is irresponsible, and his grandfather is over-
refuge in beer, and the rowdy grooms who gather behind the barn.
