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 ...

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 ...

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 ...