Is a book that has 300 expletives ROWVA strong?” one speaker asked the room. Proponents of “The Hate U Give” argued the book brought important discussions of race and racial inequality into ...

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.

Angie Thomas, author of "The Hate U Give," "On the Come Up" and "Concrete Rose," is sharing her top book picks with "Good Morning America" for Independent Bookstore Day. Thomas is the 2022 ...

There’s good news ahead for fans of The Hate U Give, the critically acclaimed book and movie offering a fictional account of how one community responds to a police-involved fatal shooting of a ...

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.” ...

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 ...

The Hate U Give was banned in different schools and areas across the country. Do you expect Concrete Rose to also be banned? I absolutely do. This is a book about a 17-year-old young man who just ...

I had a rare experience while reading Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give. I was two-thirds of the way through the book and had to put it down and remind myself that this was a work of fiction.

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 ...