W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Tyrell /

Booth, Coe, author.

Tyrell / Coe Booth. - New York ; Push, 2007. - 310 pages ; 18 cm - Tyrell ; 1 .

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.

Grade 7-12.
Teen / young adult.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2006

9780439838801 0439838800


African Americans--Fiction.
Teenage boys--Fiction.
Homeless families--Fiction.
Poor--Fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Shelters for the homeless--Fiction.
Inner cities--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.


Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.


FICTION / General.
FICTION / African American & Black / Urban & Street Lit

F BOO