Angie Thomas is the author of The Hate U Give, a young-adult best-seller since its 2017 release. Below, she names six books that were touchstones as she wrote Concrete Rose, a prequel featuring ...

Angie Thomas's explosive debut novel The Hate U Give delivers a powerful and poignant look at police brutality, poverty and life in crime-ridden inner cities. Impossible to put down and stunning ...

When bestselling YA author Angie Thomas was growing up, she didn't see herself reflected back in the books she read, but rather, the music she listened to. “During my teenage years ...

When the killing of George Floyd ignited outrage across the country, author Angie Thomas joined the ... people with signs that resembled my book cover,” Thomas told TIME’s Books Editor Lucy ...

By Karen Valby Books get written about kids like Starr Carter, the beloved heroine of Angie Thomas’s best-selling “The Hate U Give.” Too few of these characters have brown skin, but we are ...

After her debut novel, "The Hate U Give," shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list — where it has remained for almost two years — and landed a movie deal, Angie Thomas faced a ...

Image “I’m a firm believer that if our current leaders read books about black kids when they were kids, we wouldn’t be where we are today,” says Angie Thomas.Credit...Houston Cofield for ...

The Hate U Give is the award-winning debut novel by author Angie Thomas about a young girl’s struggle for justice and the fight against racism. The novel, expanded from a short story Thomas ...