The young adult novel "The Hate U Give" tells the story of a teenager whose childhood friend is shot and killed by a police officer. In the book, now a finalist for a National Book Award and ...

The very concept of the book is painfully true. In college, Thomas wrote a short story after the 2009 fatal shooting of Oscar Grant that would later served as the bones for “The Hate U Give.” ...

4. One character in The Hate U Give has a name inspired by a line from Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry. Thomas has said that Roll of Thunder is “the first book I ever saw myself in … it was about ...

ONEIDA, Illinois — The ROWVA School Board voted Tuesday, Jan. 18 to indefinitely postpone taking action to either suspend or allow a young-adult novel from being taught in freshman English classes.

My interest in banned books is how I discovered Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give. I have always loved reading stories that I could relate to real life (hence why I am now getting a degree in ...

THIS IS KELLY CRADDICK AND SHE SAYS IN THIS LAWSUIT THAT HER FRESHMAN HONORS CLASS AT PORTALES HIGH SCHOOL WANTED TO READ THIS BOOK. THE HATE U GIVE WAS A BOOK THAT WAS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED.

3 stars (out of 4); Kathleen Lance, Denver “The Hate U Give,” by Angie Thomas (Balzer + Bray, 2017) Although marketed as a YA book because the main characters are high schoolers, this is no ...

Angie Thomas, author of “The Hate U Give,” will speak at Kansas State University in Manhattan in April. Her new book, “On the Come Up,” will be released Feb. 5. Anissa Hidouk Courtesy ...

But “Banned Books: Defending the Right to Read,” which also featured “The Hate U Give” author Angie Thomas, was less focused on defining opponents of access to books than on the writers ...