"I also hope that it makes them look at the real Bris out here who are doing their thing and give them a little more homage and respect." The film, which is billed as a "love letter to hip-hop ...

That this complicated teenager with fake Timberlands and a ... [Read our Q & A with Angie Thomas about “On the Come Up”] Bri may be written off as a threat or a nobody at her school for ...

As a kid, author Angie Thomas loved books, but as a teenager she hated them. Why? Because there weren't characters like her. "'Twilight' was big when I was a kid — and I have nothing against ...

In Angie Thomas's novel On the Come Up ... with me the most,” Angie (who also wrote The Hate U Give) tells Teen Vogue. “As a teenager, I didn't connect with many books because it was hard ...

Teen Vogue: Has this story been inside you for a while, or did you have a sudden inspiration? Angie Thomas: It’s been in me for a while. I first got the idea when I was a senior in college in 2010.

Before finding her voice in young adult fiction, author Angie Thomas wanted to rap as a teenager. But she wasn’t good at it, so she decided to study creative writing when she got to college.

NPR's Noel King talks to young adult author Angie Thomas about her book: Concrete Rose. It goes back in time to tell the story of the parents of Starr Carter, the teenage girl in The Hate U Give.

The young adult novel "The Hate U Give" tells the story of a teenager whose childhood friend ... Book Award and Kirkus Prize, author Angie Thomas addresses difficult topics including race ...

First, Angie Thomas talks about The Hate You Give, in which an unarmed black teenager is killed by a police officer. Thomas reflects on victims of racial injustice in this discussion. Then ...

JACKSON — Angie Thomas was 6 years-old when she was caught ... Angie's best-selling novel, "The Hate U Give," follows a young teenager named Starr who witnesses a police officer shooting and ...

But I had to think back to when I was a teenager, and I had to think about ... You could look at that and say, “Yeah, this is another Angie book.” From the beginning, I was honest with my ...

Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas’ latest young adult novel ... is a prequel to Thomas’ smash bestseller The Hate U Give, which followed teenager Starr Carter after she witnessed her friend get ...