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Half broke horses: a true-life novel
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Published:
New York : Scribner, 2009.
Format:
Book
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc:
272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Status:
Cable Adult Fiction
FIC WAL
Description
Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic.

"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle.

Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. It will transfix readers everywhere.
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9781416586289, 1416586288, 9781416586296, 1416586296
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6.5, 13 Points

Notes

Description
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,6.5,13,133777.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Walls, J. (2009). Half broke horses: a true-life novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York, Scribner.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Walls, Jeannette. 2009. Half Broke Horses: A True-life Novel. New York, Scribner.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Walls, Jeannette, Half Broke Horses: A True-life Novel. New York, Scribner, 2009.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Walls, Jeannette. Half Broke Horses: A True-life Novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York, Scribner, 2009.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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