THUG: Angie Thomas talks about her brilliant debut novel. Her new book THUG, inspired by life on the streets in America, has spent 6 weeks as No.1 on the New York Times bestseller list and this ...

The Hate U Give author Angie Thomas unveils On the Come Up cover ...

As we enter 2021, there’s no hotter author anywhere than Angie Thomas. She currently rules the New York Times Hardcover Young Adult list with two revolutionary and relatable novels about Black lives ...

Angie Thomas Just Made An Important Point About Why 'THUG' Shouldn't Be Banned. by Kerri Jarema. Dec. 13, 2017. Angie Thomas, ... The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, $10, Amazon.

Angie Thomas certainly thinks so. In 2017, Thomas, who is based in Jackson, Mississippi, shot to fame when her young adult novel The Hate U Give (THUG) gained a spot on the New York Times ...

Angie Thomas: For one, ... But if you look at the letters it spells out thug. That comes from Tupac Shakur. A lot of people know him for having that "thug life" tattoo across his stomach.

Angie Thomas, author of “The Hate U Give,” is at once warm, funny and unapologetically blunt about race and being black in America. Speaking at First Parish Church in Cambridge with WBUR’s ...

Four years after publishing 'The Hate U Give,' which has spent 200 weeks on the 'NYT' bestseller list, Angie Thomas returns to her acclaimed fictional universe to explore the origins of Starr's ...

Angie Thomas’s newest offering to the young adult literary landscape arrives lyrics-first through the voice of a femme protagonist with a fever for becoming hip-hop royalty. Like Thomas’s ...

In this prequel to The Hate U Give, Thomas delves into the upbringing of Maverick Carter, the father of THUG’s protagonist, Starr. Mav is one of the subordinates (“li’l homies”) of ...

The Hate U Give (THUG) is the story of sixteen-year-old Starr – a girl of two worlds. Every day she walks a fine line between the poor inner-city neighbourhood where she was born and raised, and ...