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Neri, G.

Ghetto Cowboy

218 pp. | Candlewick | August, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-4922-7 $15.99
(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson. Based on the real-life community of black horsemen of North Philadelphia, this novel traces the experience of Cole, whose depressed mother drops him off with the father he barely knows. Cole's dad Harp is a leader of the Chester Avenue horsemen, stabling and training abandoned equines, and Cole learns (too easily) to ride and follow the "Cowboy Way." Formulaic, but boy-pleasing and swiftly moving.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton

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