On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Bri is a sixteen-year-old who wants to follow in her late fathers’ footsteps and become one of the great rappers of all time. She soon finds things difficult when she is labelled a hoodlum at school and her mother loses her job and is unable to put food on the table.
Her anger and frustration are then poured into her first song, which ends up going viral for all the wrong reasons. She soon finds herself at the center of a controversy and is framed as a menace by the media. However, with her family facing eviction, Bri has no choice but to follow her dream to become a superstar.
This is a great story about following your dreams, even when the odds are stacked up against you.
Angie Thomas was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She is a young adult novelist, whose first novel – The Hate U Give, not only hit #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list, but was also adapted into a film through 20th Century Fox Studios.
