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Title Ghetto cowboy : a novel / by G. Neri ; illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson.

Imprint

Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
PCMS Realistic	F NERI	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	218 p. : ill. ; 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.
Study Program	Accelerator Reader RL 4.0 5.0 PCMS
Subject	Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
	Horses -- Fiction.
	City and town life -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
	Conduct of life -- Fiction.
	Moving, Household -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	African American boys -- Fiction.
	Twelve-year-old boys -- Fiction.
	Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.
	Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
	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.
	Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form	Realistic fiction.
Added Author	Watson, Jesse Joshua, illustrator.
ISBN	9780763649227 (hbk.)
	0763649228 (hbk.)
Standard No.	NZ1 13840076
	AU@ 000045507794