Downtown Cowboy
A remarkable read by Jean Blasiar. The boys and I love her Emmy Budd series and when this book arrived to us we were excited to try a new book. Brady is a unique young man. He likes to go to the dump to see what comes from Uptown. When he finds a diary by Robert Stevens he sets off to look for the boy and lend him some help. Brady got lucky when he found the house the maid thought he was there looking for the job to help the gardener. The next day Brady gave the book to Roberts mother who was not too keen on Brady and at first did not believe his story. She let him stay to swim with Robert and he saw his diary sitting beside Brady. He asked if Brady read it and he said he did but only he did not have a step father he hated. He knew Robert could use a friend.
Brady found out some of the diary was not true Robert pretended to he had a bad step father so it would explain why he had no friends. They come up with an idea for a party to help gain Robert some friends as he explained he was not in the clique. Will the party help and what about the downtown, uptown relationship?
The story was a wonderful read. It's nice to see people not judge and get to know the "real" person behind where they come from. Brady meets a lot of interesting kids and vice versa. The characters pop out of the page and draw you into the story. It's heartwarming to read such an amazing story and one that can help other kids understand differences.