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Coe Booth

Autor(a) de Tyrell

5+ Works 1,318 Membros 56 Reviews 1 Favorited

About the Author

Image credit: 2007 LA Times Festival of Books Copyright © 2007 Ron Hogan

Séries

Obras de Coe Booth

Tyrell (2006) 590 cópias
Kendra (2008) 259 cópias
Kinda Like Brothers (2014) 217 cópias
Bronxwood (2011) 215 cópias
Caprice (2022) 37 cópias

Associated Works

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America (2019) — Contribuinte — 529 cópias

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Coe Booth brings a wholly sensitive treatment to addressing a very tough topic, the emotional and mental impacts of sexual abuse on a child. Caprice's dread simmers as her story unfolds for readers. For a while we are not sure what has happened but are witness to Caprice's mental state while she processes difficult memories brought to the surface when her grandmother becomes ill. This book perceptively models the importance of finding someone trustworthy with whom to share a secret burden. Developmentally appropriate for the targeted age group of older elementary to middle school.… (mais)
 
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Salsabrarian | Dec 14, 2022 |
As a Young Adult librarian, I inwardly (barely) frown upon any teenager's craving for the so-called street/hip-hop/urban fiction that has become a force to be reckoned with in the literary world. These books glorify an opportunisitic, materialistic, sexist, violent, and sometimes criminal world that teens live or wish to live. Lest you think me some suburb-rised cultural elitest, let me set you straight. I'm straight up 'hood born and 'hood raised. I've seen some of these stories close up in real life and there's nothing good about them, so I'm baffled by the embrace of them.

Tyrell, Coe Booth's debut novel, is urban/street/ghetto fiction taken to a higher level. It exposes the ugly side of project-life, hustling, and using sex as a tool. The protagonist, 15-year-old Tyrell, is trying to keep his family and life together as he is trying to escape homelessness. But he is constantly angered and frustrated by a trifling mom, an incarcerated dad, a mistrustful girlfriend, and a needy female pal. Yet, by the end of the story, Tyrell finds light at the end of the tunnel.

The ending doesn't pretend that the rest of Tyrell's life (or his little brother's, mother's, father's or friends') won't be a hard struggle, but it does give hope that Tyrell won't succumb to the vices (emotional and physical) that traps everyone around him. Tyrell is both sad and uplifting without being preachy. It is the perfect realistic fiction for today's teens.
… (mais)
 
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RakishaBPL | outras 31 resenhas | Sep 24, 2021 |
I stopped reading it in the middle. I found it slow-moving, and the main character unsympathetic. Where are the positive books where teen girls embrace their sexuality and release themselves from the confines of what they've been taught by society?
 
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RakishaBPL | outras 10 resenhas | Sep 24, 2021 |
Tyrell lives in the projects and faces pres - sures from all fronts—a father just out of jail, a brother in foster care, and roommates who deal drugs. A gritty, raw, and realistic account of life on the streets.
 
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NCSS | outras 2 resenhas | Jul 23, 2021 |

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Obras
5
Also by
1
Membros
1,318
Popularidade
#19,502
Avaliação
4.1
Resenhas
56
ISBNs
39
Idiomas
1
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1

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