"The Hate U Give" author Angie Thomas talks new novel "On the Come Up" 06:05 As a kid, author Angie Thomas loved books, but as a teenager she hated them.

Thomas once heard from an 8-year-old reader who loved her best-selling debut novel, The Hate U Give, which tells the story of a black teenage girl who witnesses a white police officer shoot and ...

If you blinked you may have missed it, but author Angie Thomas made a cameo in one of The Hate U Give‘s most pivotal scenes: the climactic protest sequence. In a scene that feels literally ...

The book, out Jan. 12, is a prequel to Thomas’ smash bestseller The Hate U Give, which followed teenager Starr Carter after she witnessed her friend get shot and killed by police.

Angie Thomas Shares How Her Teenage Rap Aspirations Inspired "On the Come Up" ... The Sanaa Lathan-directed film based on Angie Thomas's bestselling novel of the same name premiered on Sept. 23.

Angie Thomas was 6 years-old when she was caught in the crossfire of a shootout in Georgetown, ... As a teen rapper herself, Angie said this book is semi-autobiographical.

The author's latest YA novel takes readers back to Garden Heights to tell the story of Maverick Carter, Starr's father, as a teenager Angie Thomas—author of the powerful YA novel The Hate U Give ...

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 ...

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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.

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.