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.

PEN America’s study of over 1,000 of the most commonly banned books found 44% include people and characters of color ... the bestselling author of “The Hate U Give.” Thomas won the ...