01370cam a2200301 4500 1022399126 TxAuBib 20120322120000.0 091102s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781416586289 1416586288 (OCoLC)310397067 7512 7512 7512 TxAuBib Walls, Jeannette. Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009. 272 p : ill., ; 24 cm. A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the authorś grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen leaves 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, and the Great Depression. After a heartbreaking personal tragedy and despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery she still remains a woman of indomitable spirit. Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.5 13.0 133777EN. 20091102. Smith, Lily Casey Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life Fiction. Grandmothers Fiction. Arizona Fiction. Autobiographical fiction. TXNES