Click HERE to see the teacher’s guide for GHETTO COWBOY and HERE to read “Hoofbeats” by Johnny Dwyer, the LIFE magazine article that inspired the book.  Learn more about the story behind the story HERE.

Watch the fascinating Ghetto Cowboy book trailer created by Steven Lovy featuring a boy nobody wants, a father nobody understands, a horse nobody can ride, and trouble that can only be solved by a new breed of cowboy in the old cowboy way HERE .

Ghetto Cowboy written by Greg Neri is a book nobody should miss, podnah.