This warm-hearted book about an unlikely friendship is a must read! It touches on multiple themes, including grief, bullying, injustice, discrimination, missing family, homelessness, kindness, friendship and more!
This warm-hearted book about an unlikely friendship is a must read for anybody ages 10 and above!
This book touches on multiple themes, including grief, bullying, injustice, discrimination, missing family, homelessness, kindness, friendship and more! This book is about 12 year old Lenny who gets bullied at school because of his size, and 52 year old Bruce who lives in a cardboard house and how they bond to form an unlikely friendship in the weirdest circumstances.
Bruce helps Lenny cope with bullying and teaches him to reach out to some of his school peers that perhaps also need a friend. Lenny helps Bruce have a different outlook on life from an angle that Bruce would not ordinarily think to consider. This book also touches on what it is like to miss a family member (Lenny’s brother). I found the storyline very thought provoking. The book gripped me at the start, but in a couple of chapters two thirds in the story I felt that the suspense was perhaps unnecessarily prolonged. However, the story is overall very well written.
The front cover design is very imaginative and it represents the book’s story line really well.
In all, I would give this book 5 out of 5 stars for its creativity and imaginative story line.
Cardboard Cowboys is a great book. It's the story of an unlikely friendship between Lenny and Bruce that changes their lives forever.
Cardboard Cowboys is my kind of book. Although it's based on a boy a few years younger than me the themes of friendship, bullying, family and love are really strong.
Lenny needs a friend and while skipping school to avoid the bullies he finds across Bruce. An unexpected friendship soon follows and they both go on an epic adventure that changes everything.
This book is easy to read, exiting and you just have to read to the end to see how it all turns out. I will recommend this book to readers 9+.
Its a funny and adventurous book which is also about having self confidence.
Cardboard Cowboys is a kind and interesting book about a boy called Lenny who constantly is bullied at school. One day Lenny is at his special bench when he meets a person called Bruce at the canal. Lenny has a brother called Frankie who accidentally gets himself in trouble but as you read the book you'll find out there's lots more to this story. Eventually Bruce and Lenny become mates and go on an epic road trip to see Frankie which costs a lot of money which they have to try and find - this is a big part of the story and you'll have to read it to find out if they manage it or not!
Its a funny and adventurous book which is also about having self confidence. It gave me tips on how I might deal with bullies if it happened to me.
I would recommend this book to 8+ and give it 5 stars. I would like to read other ones by the same author.
We enjoyed this book so much that we couldn’t put it down!
This book is about a boy called Lenny who has just moved to secondary school. Lenny is being bullied because he is fat so he spends most of his time bunking off school on his bench by the river. His family also seems distant and act like they don’t appreciate him. His parents spend all their time thinking about his brother who is no longer at home.
One day, when Lenny is bunking off school, he is eating his daily snack by the river when he decides to throw his rubbish in the water. Out of nowhere, a man in a red bobble hat appears and shouts at him. Lenny is scared and runs back to school but he can’t stop thinking about the man in the red bobble hat all day.
The next day, he is brave enough and decides to return to the river and look for the man. While he is there, he finds the man’s house; it is made of cardboard. Lenny is scared that he will be kidnapped by this strange homeless man but instead they become friends. This is the start of an unlikely friendship between him and the homeless man called Bruce.
This is a pleasant change for Lenny as he has finally found a friend that he can rely on and when he makes a plan to go and see his brother, he is delighted that Bruce agrees to help.
Do they ever make it to see his brother?
Does Lenny make any more friends?
Do Lenny’s parents find out about his secret adventure?
You will have to read the book to find out!
We recommend this book to readers aged 11+ who enjoy books about friendship and real-life issues.
We enjoyed this book so much that we couldn’t put it down!
We give this book 5*****
I really enjoyed reading this book, Bruce was a very funny character who would appeal to readers. I would happily add this to my book shelf at school!
I really enjoyed reading this book, Bruce was a very funny character who would appeal to readers. I would happily add this to my book shelf at school!