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From a Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor recipient comes a street-smart tale about a displaced teen who learns to defend what's right—the Cowboy Way. Now available in a movie tie-in editon.When Cole's mom dumps him in Philadelphia to live with the dad he's never met, the last thing Cole 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 aren't black, and they don't live in the inner city. But in his dad's world, horses are a way of life, and soon Cole's days of skipping school and getting in trouble in Detroit have been replaced by shoveling muck and trying not to get stomped on.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 Cole has come to think of as his own—he knows that it's time to step up and fight back. Inspired by the little-known...Pages of Concrete Cowboy :
