On the come up / Angie Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]Copyright date: Edition: First editionDescription: 458 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Educational level group: High school freshmen
  • Educational level group: High school sophomores
  • Educational level group: High school juniors
  • Educational level group: High school seniors
  • Educational level group: High school students
  • Age group: Teenagers
ISBN:
  • 9780062498564
  • 0062498568
  • 9780062844378
  • 0062844377
  • 9781406372168
  • 1406372161
  • 0062498584
  • 9780062498588
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
  • 813.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.1.T448 On 2019b
  • PZ7.1.T488 O5 2019
NLM classification:
  • Thomas, A.
Awards:
  • Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Honor, 2019
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip-hop legend who died right before he hit big. Bri's got massive shoes to fill. But it's hard to get your come up when you're labeled a hoodlum at school and your fridge at home is empty after you mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral ... for all the wrong reasons. Bri soon finds herself at the center of a controversy, portrayed by the media as more menace than MC. But with an eviction notice staring her family down, Bri doesn't just want to make it - she has to. Even if it means becoming the very thing the public has made her out to be. Insightful, unflinching, and full of heart, On the Come Up is an ode to hip-hop from one of the most influential literary voices of a generation. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you, and about how, especially for young black people, freedom of speech isn't always free. -- From dust jacket.
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Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip-hop legend who died right before he hit big. Bri's got massive shoes to fill. But it's hard to get your come up when you're labeled a hoodlum at school and your fridge at home is empty after you mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral ... for all the wrong reasons. Bri soon finds herself at the center of a controversy, portrayed by the media as more menace than MC. But with an eviction notice staring her family down, Bri doesn't just want to make it - she has to. Even if it means becoming the very thing the public has made her out to be. Insightful, unflinching, and full of heart, On the Come Up is an ode to hip-hop from one of the most influential literary voices of a generation. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you, and about how, especially for young black people, freedom of speech isn't always free. -- From dust jacket.

HL550L lexile

Decoding: 5 (very hard) Vocabulary: 5 (very hard) Sentences: 4 (hard) Patterns: 5 (very hard) Lexile.

Accelerated Reader UG 3.8 13.0.

Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Honor, 2019

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