Ghetto Cowboy

Name: Ghetto Cowboy
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: G. Neri
ISBN: 9781455821532

Author: G. Neri

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 4 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio

Published: 08/09/2011

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Lifestyles, African American & Black Stories, Animal Stories

Synopsis

Suddenly, something big and white bumps up against the car, and I jump. I think I must be dreamin’, ’cause I just saw a horse run by.When Cole’s mom dumps him in the mean streets of Philly to live with the dad he’s never met, the last thing he expects to see is a horse—let alone a stable full of them. He may not know much about cowboys, but what he knows for sure is that cowboys ain’t black, and they don’t live in the ’hood. But here, horses are a way of life, and soon Cole’s days of skipping school and getting in trouble in Detroit have been replaced by shoveling muck and trying not to get stomped on.At first, all Cole can think about is how to ditch these ghetto cowboys and get home, but when the City threatens to shut down the stables—and take away the horse that Cole has come to think of as his own—he knows it’s time to step up and fight back.Inspired by the real-life inner-city horsemen of Philadelphia and Brooklyn, Ghetto Cowboy is a timeless urban western about learning to stand up for what’s right—the Cowboy Way.

About G. Neri

G. Neri is the winner of a 2011 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award for his graphic novel Yummy and the 2010 Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award for Chess Rumble, a middle-grade novel in verse with illustrations by Jesse Joshua Watson. G. Neri lives in Tampa, Florida.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Betsy

Fun Fact: Parents these days speak in code. As a New York children’s librarian I had to learn this the hard way. Let’s say they want a folktale about a girl outwitting a witch. I pull out something like McKissack's Precious and the Boo Hag and proudly hand it to them. When I do, the parent scrunches......more

Goodreads review by Bookishrealm

I've seen this book around for years, but I've never had the chance to pick it up. Since it's middle grade March, I thought now would be the perfect time to pick it up. Ghetto Cowboy follows 12 year old Cole who is dropped off with a father he's never really met after getting into so much trouble. W......more

Goodreads review by Deacon Tom

Totally current for today's racial struggles. It is inspired by the real-life urban black horsemen of North Philadelphia and the Brooklyn-Queens area. Great read.......more

Goodreads review by Betsy

You know you want to read a book with this title: Ghetto Cowboy. I mean, c'mon--doesn't that pique your interest just a teeny tiny bit?? This was a very cool book on a number of levels. First, I had no idea that there WERE such things as ghetto cowboys (and, yes, there are!). Cool. Second, the single-......more

Goodreads review by Kingtchalla83

Summary: Cole, 12 years old, lives in Detroit with his mother but can't seem to keep out of trouble. After a harrowing visit with the principal, his mother, burnt-out and dejected, takes Cole to Philadelphia to lives with his estranged father. Topics Covered 1)Historical Black Cowboy Facts 2)Erasure of......more