Tyrell

Coe Booth

About this book

Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.

Subjects

  • african americans
  • african americans, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • homeless persons
  • homeless persons, fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • juvenile fiction / social themes / adolescence
  • juvenile fiction / social themes / homelessness & poverty
  • new york (n.y.), fiction
  • poor
  • poverty
  • responsibility
  • teenage boys
  • teenagers