Fern G Brown

Hard Luck Horse

Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago, 1975, illus Darell Wiskur, 127 pp.

Christi offers to pay for a horse’s eye operation rather than let him be destroyed:  the trouble is, he belongs to
the riding school, and even if the operation is successful, the horse does not belong to her, and might be sold.

You’re Somebody Special on a Horse

Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago, 1977, illus Frank Murphy, 128 pp.

Marni’s grades at school are bad, and she is told she has to give up her gelding, Koke.  She pleads to be able to keep
him, arguing that she can use him in the riding programme for the disabled at her riding stable.

Baby-Sitter on Horseback

Ballantine Books, New York, 1988, 116 pp.

Sixteen year old Melissa is always being told she is unreliable:  one evening, when she is babysitting, she lets her
charge, Scott, go out to check on his horse, but he does not return.  He has been kidnapped.  Melissa is driven
to try and find Scott to salvage her self-respect if nothing else.  

Fern B Brown wrote in the 1970s and 1980s.  She wrote non fiction, with books on  the Special Olympics movement, and looking after a baby when you are a teenage mother, as well as three non fiction horse titles.  Her fictional works include four horse stories.  

Finding the books:  none were published in the UK, but all are reasonably easily available in the US.

Links and Sources:
Terri A. Wear:  Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibilography, Scarecrow Press, 1987

Bibliography - horse books only

Jockey or Else!

Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago, 1978, illus Darrell Wiskur, 128 pp.

Benjy is convinced by his experiences at Lakeside Horse Farm that he will never
be a jockey, so he sets his sights rather differently; but still to something that
will involve him with horses.

Also:

Racing Against the Odds (Biography of the jockey Robyn Smith)

Raintree Editions, Milwaukee, 1976

Behind the Scenes at the Horse Hospital

Albert Whitman, 1981

Horses and Foals

Franklin Watt, 1986