![]() ![]() The YA book fully explores what it’s like to be a young, black, lower income, American female. ![]() ![]() This book is about growing up too quickly and feeling far more responsibility than you should have to at a young age. But as most young adults are likely to do, she doesn’t immediately go to the right help. How is she going to navigate this storm of fame, racism, class struggles, and gang activity? A small lie becomes a big problem and real world penalties are being handed out. Suddenly she must deal with consequences much larger than getting grounded by her parents. Her first rap of the book really grabbed me as a reader and I was ready to root for her to hit the big time.īri’s journey takes her farther than someone her age is ready to go. You can read them with a perfect beat and it’s an impressive feat of modern poetry for an author to transcend genres like that. ![]() And she might actually have the talent to make it happen.īri’s raps are fire on the page. She wants to lift her family out of the ghetto by becoming the next big thing. On the Come Up features protagonist Bri, a teenage girl with big dreams of becoming a rapper. I read THUG the summer before I started this site so I can’t link to a review but I was truly impressed by it and am glad Thomas has impressed me yet again. You may also know her from The Hate U Give. On the Come Up is a young adult novel from author Angie Thomas. ![]()
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