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From the 2011 Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor champion comes a street-wise story in regards to a homeless teenager who learns to protect what’s right— the Rubbish Way.When Cole’s mother places him inside the mean streets of Philadelphia to reside with all the father he’s never fulfilled, the final factor Cole needs to see is just a horse, not to mention a reliable saturated in them. Cowboys may not be known much about by him, but what he knows without a doubt is the fact that cowboys aren’t black, and they don’t reside in the inner-city. However in his dad’s ’hood, mounts really are a life-style, and quickly Cole’s days of skipping school and getting into trouble in Detroit have now been changed by shoveling dirt and attempting to not get stomped on. In the beginning, all Cole may consider is just how to get house and dump these ghetto boys.