Coe Booth

Booth was born on March 21 in New York City. She grew up in the Bronx.

Booth graduated from college in 1996 with a BA and MA in psychology.{{Cite web |title=Coe Booth {{!}} Faculty & Staff {{!}} Hamline University |url=https://www.hamline.edu/faculty-staff/coe-booth |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=www.hamline.edu |archive-date=2022-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219182130/https://www.hamline.edu/faculty-staff/coe-booth |url-status=live }} She worked as a social worker in New York City Emergency Children's Service.{{Cite news |title=In A Foster Home, Two Boys Become 'Kinda Like Brothers' |language=en |work=NPR.org |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/08/24/342162424/in-a-foster-home-two-boys-become-kinda-like-brothers |access-date=2022-12-19 |archive-date=2022-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219182354/https://www.npr.org/2014/08/24/342162424/in-a-foster-home-two-boys-become-kinda-like-brothers |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Interview with Coe Booth – Rich in Color |url=https://richincolor.com/2015/01/interview-with-coe-booth/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219203756/https://richincolor.com/2015/01/interview-with-coe-booth/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Interview with Coe Booth (12.16.14) {{!}} The Social Justice Project |url=http://blog.lrei.org/social-justice/2015/01/22/interview-with-coe-booth-12-16-14/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=blog.lrei.org |archive-date=2022-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219182049/http://blog.lrei.org/social-justice/2015/01/22/interview-with-coe-booth-12-16-14/ |url-status=live }} In 2005, she attended The New School for General Studies in New York where she completed a Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing.[http://www.newschool.edu/alumni/NSGSSpring2007.pdf The New School, Spring 2007 Newsletter] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929093105/http://www.newschool.edu/alumni/NSGSSpring2007.pdf |date=2012-09-29 }} retrieved 20 May 2009 In 2005, Booth completed her first novel, Tyrell. Her inspiration for this book came from her experience working with the troubled teenagers of New York.

Booth is a full-time writer and part-time college professor at a Bronx Community College. She teaches English. Booth also volunteers for the NAACP ACT-SO program where she mentors teenage writers.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} She lives in Basel, Switzerland as a writer-in-residence at Laurenz Haus. {{Citation needed|date=May 2009}}{{Cite journal |last=Prince |first=Julie |date=April 2009 |title=Keeping it real: An interview with Coe Booth |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA197856555&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=14811782&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Ed69b75f7 |journal=Teacher Librarian |publisher=E L Kurdyla Publishing LLC |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=62–63, 78 |id={{ProQuest| }} |access-date=2023-12-19 |archive-date=2022-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219183339/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA197856555&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=14811782&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon~d69b75f7 |url-status=live }}

Three of Booth's books are Junior Library Guild selections: Bronxwood (2011),{{Cite web |title=Bronxwood |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/bronxwood-9780439925341j |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Junior Library Guild |language=en}} Kinda Like Brothers (2014){{Cite web |title=Kinda Like Brothers |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/kinda-like-brothers-9780545224963j |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Junior Library Guild |language=en}} and Caprice (2022).{{Cite web |title=Caprice |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/caprice-9780545933346j |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Junior Library Guild |language=en}}

Tyrell won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel for books published in 2006.{{Cite web |title=Los Angeles Times Book Prizes |url=https://www.writerswrite.com/rr/awards/latimes/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414195224/https://www.writerswrite.com/rr/awards/latimes/ |archive-date=2022-04-14 |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=Writers Write}} In 2007, the American Library Association (ALA) included Tyrell on their list of Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers{{Cite web |date=2007-03-01 |title=Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: 2007 |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Quick-Picks-for-Reluctant-Young-Adult-Readers/pid=3469088 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Booklist |archive-date=2022-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127050636/https://www.booklistonline.com/Quick-Picks-for-Reluctant-Young-Adult-Readers/pid=3469088 |url-status=live }} and Best Books for Young Adults.{{Cite web |date=2007-03-01 |title=Best Books for Young Adults: 2007 |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Best-Books-for-Young-Adults/pid=1891231 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Booklist |archive-date=2021-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127044335/https://www.booklistonline.com/Best-Books-for-Young-Adults/pid=1891231 |url-status=live }} Booklist included it on their list of the top ten First Novels for Youth.{{Cite web |last=Zvirin |first=Stephanie |date=2007-11-15 |title=Top 10 First Novels for Youth: 2007 |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=2314561 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Booklist |archive-date=2022-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122014643/https://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=2314561 |url-status=live }} Time has also included Tyrell on their list of the "100 Best YA Books of all Time".{{Cite web |title=The 100 Best YA Books of All Time |url=https://time.com/collection/100-best-ya-books/ |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Time |language=en |archive-date=2023-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707042259/https://time.com/collection/100-best-ya-books/ |url-status=live }} Despite these honors, the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom has indicated that Tyrell has been frequently banned and challenged in the United States.{{Cite web |last= |date=2016-08-05 |title=Frequently Challenged Books with Diverse Content |url=https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/diverse |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=American Library Association |language=en |archive-date=2023-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626110516/https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/diverse |url-status=live }}

In 2012, the ALA included Bronxwood on their list of Best Fiction for Young Adults.{{Cite web |date=2012-04-23 |title=Bronxwood {{!}} Awards & Grants |url=https://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/bronxwood |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=American Library Association |archive-date=2023-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315134048/https://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/bronxwood |url-status=live }} They also named it a top ten selection for their Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers list.{{Cite web |last=Finneke |first=Jaclyn |date=2012-01-27 |title=YALSA names 2012 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers |url=https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2012/01/yalsa-names-2012-quick-picks-reluctant-young-adult-readers |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=American Library Association |language=en |archive-date=2016-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317072435/http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2012/01/yalsa-names-2012-quick-picks-reluctant-young-adult-readers |url-status=live }}

In 2015, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) included Kinda Like Brothers on their list of the year's Notable Children's Books,{{Cite web |last=Schulte-Cooper |first=Laura |date=2015-03-03 |title=ALSC names 2015 Notable Children's Books |url=https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2015/03/alsc-names-2015-notable-childrens-books |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=American Library Association |language=en |archive-date=2022-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208034306/https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2015/03/alsc-names-2015-notable-childrens-books |url-status=live }} and Bank Street College of Education included it on their list of the year's best books for children ages 12 to 14.{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Best Children's Books of the Year, Twelve to Fourteen, 2015 Edition |url=https://d2mguk73h8xisw.cloudfront.net/media/filer_public/filer_public/2015/03/17/2015twelve-to-fourteen_a5acd4da-a183-41f6-8d32-5149122c8e6b.pdf |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Bank Street College of Education |page=2 |archive-date=2023-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701015527/https://d2mguk73h8xisw.cloudfront.net/media/filer_public/filer_public/2015/03/17/2015twelve-to-fourteen_a5acd4da-a183-41f6-8d32-5149122c8e6b.pdf |url-status=live }}

In 2019, Booklist included Black Enough on their top ten list of "Diverse Fiction for Youth".{{Cite web |last=Cooper |first=Ilene |date=February 1, 2019 |title=Top 10 Diverse Fiction for Youth: 2019 |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=9714406 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230909213541/https://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=9714406 |archive-date=September 9, 2023 |access-date=December 18, 2023 |website=Booklist}} The following year, the Young Adult Library Services Association included it on their Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers lists.{{Cite web |last= |date=2020-01-06 |title=2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults |url=https://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005154213/https://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults |archive-date=2022-10-05 |access-date=December 18, 2023 |website=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |date=2020-01-07 |title=2020 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers |url=https://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-quick-picks-reluctant-young-adult-readers |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120110448/https://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-quick-picks-reluctant-young-adult-readers |archive-date=2023-11-20 |access-date=December 18, 2023 |website=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) |language=en}}

In 2022, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and the Chicago Public Library named Caprice one of the year's best children's books.{{Cite web |last=ChiPubLib_Kids |title=BCALA Kids Best of the Best: 2022 |url=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/200049033_chipublib_kids/2284090919_bcala_kids_best_of_the_best_2022 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Chicago Public Library |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230519065812/https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/200049033_chipublib_kids/2284090919_bcala_kids_best_of_the_best_2022 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=ChiPubLib_Kids |title=Best Fiction for Older Readers of 2022 |url=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/200049033/2205119399 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Chicago Public Library |language=en-US}} The following year, the ALSC included Caprice on their list of Notable Children's Books.{{Cite web |last= |date= |title=Notable Children's Books – 2023 |url=https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) |language=en |archive-date=2023-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608192350/https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb |url-status=live }}

• {{Cite book |title=Tyrell |publisher=Ragged Bears Publishing Limited |year=2006 |isbn=9780439838795}}{{Cite web |date=2006-11-20 |title=Tyrell by Coe Booth |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780439838795 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Publishers Weekly |archive-date=2023-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230909212950/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780439838795 |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite book |title=Kendra |publisher=PUSH |year=2010 |isbn=9780439925372}}{{Cite journal |last=Larkin |first=Elizabeth |date=April 2013 |title=C. Booth. Kendra: New York: Scholastic, 2008. ISBN 978-0-439-92537-2. |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15350770.2013.782771 |journal=Journal of Intergenerational Relationships |language=en |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=208–209 |doi=10.1080/15350770.2013.782771 |issn=1535-0770 |via=Taylor & Francis Online|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite book |title=Bronxwood |publisher=Push |year=2011 |isbn=9780439925341}}{{Cite web |date=2011-09-01 |title=Bronxwood |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Bronxwood-Coe-Booth/pid=4951341 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Booklist |archive-date=2023-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614023441/https://www.booklistonline.com/Bronxwood-Coe-Booth/pid=4951341 |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite book |title=Kinda Like Brothers |publisher=Push |year=2014 |isbn=9780545224963}}{{Cite journal |last=Bush |first=Elizabeth |date=2014 |title=Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/bulletin_of_the_center_for_childrens_books/v068/68.2.bush16.html |journal=Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books |language=en |volume=68 |issue=2 |pages=89–90 |doi=10.1353/bcc.2014.0855 |issn=1558-6766 |via=Project MUSE|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite book |title=Caprice |publisher=Scholastic Inc. |year=2022 |isbn=9780545933346}}{{Cite web |date=2022-04-07 |title=Caprice by Coe Booth |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780545933346 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Publishers Weekly |archive-date=2023-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230909211329/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780545933346 |url-status=live }}

• {{Cite book |title=Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America |publisher=Balzer + Bray |year=2019 |isbn=9780062698742 |editor-last=Zoboi |editor-first=Ibi |chapter=Gravity}}{{Cite web |date=October 22, 2018 |title=Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America by Tracey Baptiste (et al.) |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062698728 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608172640/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062698728 |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |access-date=December 12, 2023 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
• {{Cite book |title=This is Push: New Voices from The Edge |publisher=Push |year=2007 |isbn=9780439890281}}

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Works cited

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081122141914/http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3808 Scholastic.com] Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
• [http://thebrownbookshelf.com/2008/02/22/coe-booth/ The Brown Bookshelf] . Retrieved on 2008-04-22.

• {{Cite journal |last=Blasingame, Jr.  |first=James |date=Winter 2007 |title="What a Man Do": Coe Booth and the Genesis of Tyrell |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/77b9e575ba4c8415bf8ec31d60605eb0/1?cbl=26295&pq-origsite=gscholar |journal=ALAN Review |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=28–33 |id={{ProQuest| }} }}
• {{Cite book |last=Cueto |first=Desiree |title=More Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors: A Period of Growth in African American Young Adult Literature (2001 to 2021) |last2=Brooks |first2=Wanda |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2022 |isbn=9781475843606 |editor-last=Bickmore |editor-first=Steven T. |pages=11–20 |chapter=Coe Booth: Reclaiming Humanity in Stories about Urban Life |editor-last2=Clark |editor-first2=Shanetia P.}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Prince |first=Julie |date=April 2009 |title=keeping it real: an interview with Coe Booth |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/224873608?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true&sourcetype=Magazines |journal=Teacher Librarian |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=62–63, 78 |id={{ProQuest| }} }}

• [http://www.coebooth.com Official website]

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