Ghetto cowboy : a novel

Resource Information

The work Ghetto cowboy : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Ghetto cowboy : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

by G. Neri ; illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson

Creator

• Neri, Greg

Contributor

• Watson, Jesse Joshua

Illustrator

• Watson, Jesse Joshua

Subject

• Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction
• Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Juvenile fiction
• Realistic fiction
• Fathers and sons -- Fiction
• Horses
• Conduct of life -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
• City and town life
• Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
• Moving -- Fiction
• Father-son relationship -- Fiction
• African Americans
• Fathers and sons
• Moving, Household
• African Americans -- Fiction
• Moving, Household -- Fiction
• Pennsylvania
• Moving, household -- Fiction
• Horses -- Fiction
• Horses -- Fiction
• JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Horses
• Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
• Fathers and sons -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• City and town life -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile fiction
• JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
• City and town life -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction
• Juvenile works
• Conduct of life
• Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• Conduct of life -- Fiction
• JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
• Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction
• Horses -- Juvenile fiction
• City and town life -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Realistic fiction

Language

eng

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

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.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.N4377478

LC item number

Ghe 2011

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adolescent