cool cat

by Frank Bonham

"THERE WAS LITTLE PIE. THERE WAS HIS HAT. AND THERE WERE THE PILLS."As if things weren't hard enough in Dogtown! Trying to stay out of trouble and earn some money, too, were keeping Buddy Williams, Little Pie, Cool Hankins, and Rich Smith busy full time. Blue Eyes Infante and his Machete gang were equally busy complicating matters. Had they set Little Pie up? He said he was just hanging around, but there was a suspicious aura about him, and he always showed up when trouble did.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Frank Bonham (February 25, 1914 – 1988) was an author of Westerns and young adult novels. Bonham wrote 48 novels, as well as TV scripts. Bonham was born in Los Angeles. He was a UCLA graduate. Bonham was known for his works for young adults written in the 1960s, with tough, realistic urban settings, including The Nitty Gritty and Durango Street, as well as for his westerns. Several of his works have been published posthumously, many of which were drawn from his pulp magazine stories, originally published between 1941 and 1952. Durango Street was an ALA Notable Book.

Reviews

[Benjamin Kahn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read every Frank Bonham books that the library had when I was a kid. I loved them. They were a little bit like S. E Hinton's book, but there was a little more humour and fun in them. I don't remember a lot of the plots now - just pieces here and there - but I remember enjoying them all greatly.