by Patsey Gray
“I’ll have to go in again for an award, Lee thinks. But I’ll be back,” Sis told him.
“In ten minutes?”
She laughed. “You said, ‘Come back in ten months.’” But she suspected the schedule had been changed.
Books by Patsey Gray
Star Series
The Horse Trap
Star Bright
Star Lost
Lucky Star
Star the Seahorse
Other Horse Fiction
Heads Up!
Doggone Roan
4-H Filly
Galloping Gold
Challenger
Horse in Her Heart
Diving Horse
The Mysterious Buckskin
Loco the Bronc
Show Ring Rogue
Jumping Jack
Norah’s Ark
Horsepower
Blue Ribbon Summer
The Flag is Up
Double Standards
Other Books
Show and Tell: How to Win Trail Classes
Happiness is a Well-Trained Horse
Don’t Forget To Write
Barefoot a Thousand Miles
Note: The Mysterious Buckskin was written under the pen name, Virginia Clark. The inclusion of The Mysterious Buckskin in the bibliography of other Patsey Gray books confirms this.
About the Author
PATSEY GRAY’S business, family life and hobbies are all concerned with horses. She has ridden since she was quite small, and during the course of her riding career she has won more than five hundred events. As a girl she showed hunters and jumpers and rode races in the fairs and rodeos of California, just like the heroines of her books.
Mrs. Gray is the wife of Dr. Gerald Gray, a plastic surgeon. They live on a thirty acre ranch in Walnut Creek, California, on which they breed, raise, train, and show Appaloosas. The Grays have two sons and two daughters. Both daughters have followed in their mother’s footsteps, and each has won the American Horse Show Association’s highest award for stock saddle seat. They are the only two sisters with their names on the trophy cup for this event.
Mrs. Gray began writing several years ago when she was kept in bed for two months after a series of horseback accidents. She says of her writing: “Naturally I write about children and horses, since they are all I know anything about. My characters and scenes are always available. When I found I could sell my stories I took some night courses at the University of California. My writing habits consist of scribbling away longhand, whenever and wherever I find time, usually for a couple of hours after I’m through riding in the morning.”
About this eBook
Double Standards
written by Patsey Gray
first published 1983
by Ace Tempo Books
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Everyone seems to “stretch the truth” when it suits their purpose. But when Sis found out that her dad was involved in real estate frauds she was devastated and decided to spend the summer working on her uncle’s ranch where she would have time to think.
But the Tanbark Ranch wasn’t a haven of tranquility. One of the ranch hands was involved in a treacherous scheme that could destroy the ranch and the horse Sis had come to love.
How could she let her uncle know that someone he trusted was deceiving him?
—publisher’s description
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Source Material & Particulars
TEXT & COVER
1983 Ace Tempo Original paperback
ISBN13: 978-0448156941
AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH
dust jacket of
The Mysterious Buckskin
An “about the author” page was added with information obtained from similar pages published in the paperback edition of Star Lost and the hardcover edition of Lucky Star. A full bibliography is also included.
In chapter five, the word “si” was changed to the accented version “sí”, since the accent is what makes it specifically mean “yes” in Spanish.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
By Patsey Gray
About the Author
About this eBook
