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• My Daddy Is a Cowboy

  Seales, Stephanie,

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  While a young Panamanian American girl and her father share "just-us" time on an early morning horseback ride around their town, he tells her cowboy stories and she realizes she is a cowboy too.

• Polo Cowboy

  Neri, Greg

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  When Cole moves in with his dad, Harp, he thinks life will be sweet--just him and his horse, Boo, hanging out with Philadelphia's urban cowboys. But when Harp says he has to get a job, Cole winds up as a stable hand for the polo team at George…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cow Boy Is Not a Cowboy

  Barrington, Gregory

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  Goat Girl--an adventurous goat--lives on Humdrum Farm, a place where everything is ordinary, and she's looking for some excitement . When she meets Merle--a bull--she mistakes him for a cowboy since he's both a cow and a boy. Cowboys aren't ordinary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Favorite Stories From Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa

  Horse in the House

  Silverman, Erica

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  When Cocoa decides to explore the house, Cowgirl Kate has a hard time convincing him he must return to the barn.

• The Outlaw

  Vo, Nancy

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  A small Western town lives in fear of another visit from a known outlaw, but a while after the outlaw mysteriously disappears, a stranger rides into town to make repairs to the dilapidated village.

• I Wanna Be a Cowgirl

  DiTerlizzi, Angela

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  From sun up to sun down, the girl in this story pretends to be a cowgirl as she pulls on her (rain) boots, saddles up her (stick) horse, and gallops off through the (backyard) hills. Filled with humor and imaginative play, this sweet story from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cowpoke Clyde Rides the Range

  Mortensen, Lori, 1955-

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  Cowpoke Clyde is plumb confused. An ad in his favorite catalog says he oughta buy a bike. But why should he do that? After all, he's got a horse. Still, a bike wouldn't buck or bite, and he wouldn't have to feed it. He orders one, and when it comes,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Cowboys

  Hoefler, Kate

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  In Kate Hoefler's realistic and poetic picture book debut about the wide open West, the myth of rowdy, rough-riding cowboys and cowgirls is remade. A timely and multifaceted portrayal reveals a lifestyle that is as diverse as it contrary to what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rodeo Red

  Perkins, Maripat

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  Rodeo Red and her hound dog, Rusty, are happy as can be until Side Swiping Slim comes to town and starts stirring up trouble for them, but when Slim steals Rusty, Red will do anything to get him back--even give up the birthday gift her Aunt Sal, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cowboy Boyd and Mighty Calliope

  Moser, Lisa

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  A cowboy and his trusty rhinocerous try to prove themselves at the Double R Ranch, where Slim, Hardtack, and Rancher Rose doubt Calliope's potential, but Boyd believes in her.

• Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg

  Mortensen, Lori, 1955-

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  Following increasingly chaotic attempts to give his dog a bath, Cowpoke Clyde discovers there is only one way to get Dawg into the tub.

• Every Cowgirl Loves a Rodeo

  Janni, Rebecca

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  Nellie Sue enjoys the county fair, but cannot wait to compete against the reigning champion of the bicycle rodeo, A.J. Picket.

• Cowboy Pug

  the Dog Who Rode for Glory

  James, Laura, 1979-

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  Pug and his faithful companion, Lady Miranda, are pretending to be cowboys for the day, and soon get into mischief.

• The Case of the Deadly Desperados

  Lawrence, Caroline

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  In 1862 Nevada Territory, after finding his foster parents murdered and scalped, twelve-year-old Pinky Pinkerton, son of a railroad detective and a Sioux Indian, inherits a valuable deed and must hide from dangerous Whittlin Walt and his gang of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghetto Cowboy

  Neri, Greg

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Halloween Kid

  Montijo, Rhode

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  The brave and trusty Halloween Kid saves trick-or-treaters from a crowd of sweet-stealing Goodie Goblins.