Sunday, February 17, 2013

Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri

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.


38 comments:

  1. I thought the history behind this story was interesting, but the book was just okay for me. I couldn't connect with Cole, but I'm not sure why.**

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  2. when his mom left him i thought that was a really sad moment but otherwise it was a really good book

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  3. I thought this was a really good book because the boy dosnt want to leave his mom but turns out to love his gift.DAD

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  4. This is a very great book . it's about a boy who doesn't know about horses and the out back with his dad

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  5. I love this book. it's was awsome because it was about a boy did know about hores and animals
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  6. I did not like it because how they talked and it was confusing to me.

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  7. I did not like it because his dad did not treat him right when he was a baby and his mom just let him go with him.**

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  8. This book fells so real.***

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  9. I did not like the way he was treated when he was a baby ***

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  10. I was really feeling bad because they didn't treat him right in his childhood and that really went down into my heart****

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  11. i did not like this book because he was treated badly when he was a babby.

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  12. His parents didnot treat him very welly and I think that was really unexceptable and I would give **stars

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  13. I love this book ghetto cowboy because i know someone who was going and doing the same thing he was cause the way he was treaded as a baby war bad****

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  14. i think the way he was treated was very bad.****

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  15. I feel bad for Cole when his mother left him **

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  16. i think he was treated very badly**

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  17. I like this book because it has alot of history and I love learning about history and i like cow boys and laso`s I give this book ***** stars

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  18. I relly liked Geto coyboy because it had good word choice *****

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  19. I like the book because Cole did not know he was moving or that he is going to take care of horses.***

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  20. i can not belive this was in 2013 with obama as president they talked so funny***

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  21. I liked this book because it had a nice ending.****

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  22. I liked this book because of how they made great vivid sentences. I give this book ****.

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  23. this book is kind of sad in the first part because he has to go stay with someone who doesnt even care about them****

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  24. I like that Cole stayed with Harper whe his mom dropped him off. I like how Harper taught him a lot. 4 out of 5 stars.

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  25. I like this book because cole overcome his challenge of fiting in***

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  26. Ghetto Cowboy was interesting to me because they talked differently than me.***

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  27. This book was a great book and it was an emotional book too.

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  28. I think that Coltrane inspires us to never give up no matter how tough life gets.*****

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  29. I really like on page 211 when it said speeding by and think this is it feels like to fly *******

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  30. I really enjoyed this book my favorite character was Coltrane .****

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  31. i like this book because inspires me

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  32. i like he descirbed his dad at philhdeiph

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  33. I think he was a good book because Cole did not like where he was going

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  34. They had Great word choises, but it was sad when he was a baby****

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  35. I did not the book because it was difficult to follow due to the way is was written I give it **

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  36. i didnt like it because his dad didnt treat him right ***

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  37. I hate how the mom left him other wise it was better from there. ***

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  38. I like this book because it's Very interesting. ****😉

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