Angie Thomas changed the face of YA fiction with The Hate U Give in 2018 ... a positive icon for Black youth and an unforgettable character for teenage readers around the world, regardless ...

The Hate U Give feels very much like a movie based on a book, relying on Starr's voiceover ... is riveting from moment one. Starr is a character playing a character – as she explains in ...

Nonprofit We Need Diverse Books will host the first "We Need Diverse Books Day" April 3 to encourage inclusive books in ...

The Hate U Give is the award-winning debut novel by author ... On her official website, Thomas states that she ‘looks at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they’ll show us a side ...

The Hate U Give (THUG ... she visits in The Hate U Give. A former teen rapper, she recently won the inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant awarded by the We Need Diverse Books campaign.