But I had to think back to when I was a teenager, and I had to think about what was my big tragedy as a teenager ... this is another Angie book.” From the beginning, I was honest with my ...

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 2017, Angie Thomas ... her ode to hip hop. Thomas' second book tells the story of Brianna Jackson, a 16-year-old battle rap phenom who dreams of becoming the next big thing in hip hop.

In Angie Thomas' novel, Starr Carter lives in a gang ... At Starr's neighborhood, Starr is known as Big Mav's daughter. Her father was a former gang member, and he's turned his life around.

In Angie Thomas's novel ... get the chance for his big mainstream moment. It's a story based on a love for the genre and all that hip-hop encompasses — now, as the book gets a paperback edition ...

Angie Thomas certainly thinks so ... Riding the wave of this success, Thomas is back with another book, On The Come Up (OTCU), which is set, like THUG, in the fictional neighbourhood of Garden ...

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 young adult novel by The Hate U Give author Angie Thomas. The project, originally set at Fox 2000 who released 2018’s The Hate U Give film starring Amandla Stenberg, moved to Paramount ...

she pours out her frustration into songs that become big viral hits. It is set in the same fictional universe as Thomas’ first book The Hate U Give. The team behind The Hate U Give quickly ...

By Karen Valby Books get written about kids like Starr Carter, the beloved heroine of Angie ... Thomas declares on every page of this exuberant, exquisitely intimate novel is that Bri deserves a ...