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Coe Booth

I was born and raised in New York City, in the Bronx. I'm the author of TYRELL, KENDRA, and BRONXWOOD. show more

I was born and raised in New York City, in the Bronx. I'm the author of TYRELL, KENDRA, and BRONXWOOD.

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Website: www.coebooth.com

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Young Adult

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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America - Coe Booth, Rita Williams-Garcia, Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Renée Watson, Lamar Giles, Tochi Onyebuchi, Justina Ireland, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Nic Stone, Leah Henderson, Liara Tamani, Jay Coles

This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge - David Levithan, Patricia McCormick, Matthue Roth, Kevin Waltman, Samantha Schutz, Coe Booth, Eddie De Oliveira, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Kevin Brooks, Chris Wooding, Markus Zusak, Brian James, Kristen Kemp, Eireann Corrigan, Christopher Krovatin, Billy Merrell

Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: Stories About Loving -- and Loathing -- Your Body - Marissa Walsh, Daniel Pinkwater, Megan McCafferty, Eireann Corrigan, Matt de la Pena, Wendy McClure, Sarra Manning, Margo Rabb, Jaclyn Moriarty, Barry Lyga, Jeff Dillon, Sara Zarr, Coe Booth, Wendy Shanker, Carolyn Mackler, Ellen Hopkins

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Regina's Reads rated it

12 years ago

text Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: Stories About Loving -- and Loathing -- Your Body

I only read a few of these essays, including the one by Sara Zarr. Insightful and definitely worth reading.

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pedestrienne rated it

14 years ago

text Bronxwood

Booth's writing reminds me of S.E. Hinton - well-written stories of kids caught up in street culture, living in poverty, who narrate the ways in which they/their situations are messed up but can't find a way out of it. I was very psyched to see this arc at ALA and it didn't disappoint. But it does ...

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Mike Mullin, Author rated it

14 years ago

text Tyrell (Push)

Easily the best male teen voice by a female author I've read. Seriously, if Walter Dean Myers had written this, I don't think Tyrell's voice would have been any more accurate or believable. Coe Booth does a fabulous job putting the reader into Tyrell's head, so that by the end of the book I felt lik...

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Confessions of a Bibliophile rated it

14 years ago

text

Wow, what a fantastic read! I picked this up at work to give it a go and I was immediately sucked in. You really get the sense of desperation and struggle that Tyrell faces in his narration and how much he’s willing to do to stay out of the “system.” I was hooked from the first few pages and did not...

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