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Ghetto Cowboy (the Inspiration for Concrete Cowboy)
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Ghetto Cowboy (the Inspiration for Concrete Cowboy) Hardcover - 2011

by G. Neri; Jesse Joshua Watson (Illustrator)


From the publisher

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 middlegrade novel in verse with illustrations by Jesse Joshua Watson. G. Neri lives in Tampa, Florida.

Jesse Joshua Watson is the illustrator of Chess Rumble by G. Neri and I and I by Tony Medina. He is also the author-illustrator of Hope for Haiti. Jesse Joshua Watson lives in Washington State.

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  • Title Ghetto Cowboy (the Inspiration for Concrete Cowboy)
  • Author G. Neri; Jesse Joshua Watson (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Candlewick Press (MA), Somerville, Massachusetts
  • Date 2011-08-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780763649227 / 0763649228
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.9 x 0.78 in (21.64 x 14.99 x 1.98 cm)
  • Ages 10 to UP years
  • Grade levels 5 - UP
  • Reading level 660
  • Library of Congress subjects Philadelphia (Pa.), Conduct of life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010007565
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

A fascinating glimpse of a culture most readers will not have heard of.
—Kirkus Reviews

Neri's story is original in theme and inspirational in tone and content.
—Booklist

About the author

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.

Jesse Joshua Watson is the illustrator of Chess Rumble by G. Neri and I and I by Tony Medina. He is also the author-illustrator of Hope for Haiti. Jesse Joshua Watson lives in Washington State.

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