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High, Linda Oatman.
TENTH AVENUE COWBOY
Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2008
IL K-3, RL 4.9
ISBN 0802853307
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 It's 1910 and Ben's family have left their ranch in the west hoping to find good paying jobs in New York City.  Ben is really homesick and doesn't like the city one bit.  The other kids make fun of him and Ben misses the horses that he used to ride.  But then he hears about the Tenth Avenue cowboys.  What could this possibly be?  There are cowboys in the city?
SUBJECTS:     City and town life -- Fiction.
                        Cowboys -- Fiction.
                        Railroad -- Trains -- Fiction.
                        New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
                        Historical fiction.

 
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