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Ghetto cowboy : a novel
- Title
- Ghetto cowboy : a novel / by G. Neri ; illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson.
- Author
- Neri, Greg.
- Publication
- Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 17-238 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Watson, Jesse Joshua
- Description
- 218 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
- Subject
- Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction
- Horses > Juvenile fiction
- City and town life > Pennsylvania > Juvenile fiction
- Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction
- Moving, Household > Juvenile fiction
- African Americans > Juvenile fiction
- Fathers and sons > Fiction
- Horses > Fiction
- City and town life > Pennsylvania > Fiction
- Conduct of life > Fiction
- Moving, Household > Fiction
- African Americans > Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION > Animals > Horses
- JUVENILE FICTION > People & Places > African American. > United States
- JUVENILE FICTION > Social Themes > Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- African Americans
- City and town life
- Conduct of life
- Fathers and sons
- Horses
- Moving, Household
- Philadelphia (Pa.) > Juvenile fiction
- Philadelphia (Pa.) > Fiction
- Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
- Genre/Form
- Spy fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Realistic fiction.
- Awards (note)
- A Junior Library Guild Selection.
- Cybils Finalist, 2011.
- Odyssey Award For Excellence in Audibook Production Honor Book audiobook, 2012.
- Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee, 2014.
- Evergreen Young Adult Book award Nominee, 2014.
- Bluebonnet Awards Nominee, 2014.
- Call Number
- Sc D 17-238
- ISBN
- 9780763649227
- 0763649228
- LCCN
- 2010007565
- 9780763649227
- OCLC
- 607317643
- Author
- Neri, Greg.
- Title
- Ghetto cowboy : a novel / by G. Neri ; illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson.
- Imprint
- Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Study Program
- Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.0 5.0 145076.Reading Counts RC 6-8 3.8 9 Quiz: 54559.
- Awards
- A Junior Library Guild Selection.Cybils Finalist, 2011.Odyssey Award For Excellence in Audibook Production Honor Book audiobook, 2012.Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee, 2014.Evergreen Young Adult Book award Nominee, 2014.Bluebonnet Awards Nominee, 2014.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Watson, Jesse Joshua, illustrator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780763649227 51599
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 17-238