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Half broke horses : a true-life novel (book club kit - fiction) / Jeannette Walls. by Walls, Jeannette Scribner, 2009. Call #: BOOK CLUB KIT WAL Subjects Smith, Lily Casey -- Fiction.   Teachers -- Fiction.   Ranchers -- Fiction.   Texas -- Fiction.   Arizona -- Fiction. URL856 Click here to learn more about borrowing Book Club Kits URL856 Would you like to see what other titles we have available in Book Club Kits? Click here! URL856 Holds must be placed via our Request Form URL856 Information kit for Half Broke Horses ISBN:  9781416586296 Alternate title:  Book club kit : Half broke horses Bookclub kit : Half broke horses Description:  10 books, 272 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  Holds can be placed via the Contact Us page on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the kit, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available. Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This kit includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Jeannette Walls' "Half Broke Horses", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The kit is available to borrow for 6 week loans. Summary:  "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. Genre:  Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Book Club Kit Other authors:  HPL Readers Services Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Collection Management Adult Book Club Kit BOOK CLUB KIT WAL Adult Book Club Kit Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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