Cardboard Cowboys

Name: Cardboard Cowboys
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781526628602
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By Brian Conaghan

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Summary

Cardboard Cowboys by Brian Conaghan is a poignant and touching story about a young boy named Lenny who feels isolated and misunderstood. Struggling with his emotions and school life, Lenny finds an unexpected friendship with a mysterious character he meets while skipping school. Together, they embark on a journey of understanding, rediscovering the power of connection and empathy.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Cardboard Cowboys

Description

I’m not a genius. Not yet anyway. But Bruce is. Even though I found him living in a house made of cardboard, he’s a massive genius. Fact. So this is mine and Bruce’s story. You don’t have to believe any of it happened, but it did. All of it.

Nobody at school can see past Lenny’s size to the person within, and he’s sick of trying to make them. So when lessons get too tough, he always goes to his bench to think. At least there, no one can see him.

But one day, midway through lobbing his empty can of IrnBru into the river, he’s stopped by Bruce. Bruce lives in a cardboard home hidden away by the banks, and he doesn’t approve of people messing up his front lawn…

But a bumpy start soon gives way to an unexpected friendship—and an epic road trip—that will change both of them for life.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526628602

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 April 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 248g

Pages: 352

Collections

Brian Conaghan Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Young Adult

About the Author

Brian Conaghan was born and raised in the Scottish town of Coatbridge but now lives in Dublin. He has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. For many years Brian worked as a teacher and taught in Scotland, Italy and Ireland. His first YA novel for Bloomsbury, When Mr Dog Bites, was shortlisted for the 2015 Carnegie Medal, and his second, The Bombs That Brought Us Together, won the 2016 Costa Children’s Book Award. We Come Apart, a verse novel co-authored with Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan, won the 2018 UKLA Book Award, and his fourth novel, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers, won the 2018 Irish Book Award for Teen & Young Adult Book of the Year.
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