A review by shelleebee
Tyrell by Coe Booth

3.0

This is one of my tenth-grade students' favorite books. It tells the story of an African-American boy from the Bronx who is homeless with his mom and younger brother. They live, for now, in a government-sponsored hotel that is barely livable. Tyrell decides that it is up to him to get them out of there because his mother can barely take care of herself, and he has to help his younger brother. The book is written in first-person and is full of the language of urban teens. There is also no shortage of sex, drugs, and hip-hop in this modern Bildungsroman. A Cooper favorite!