The young adult novel "The Hate U Give" tells the story of a teenager whose childhood friend is shot and killed by a police officer. In the book, now a finalist for a National Book Award and ...

The Hate U Give author Angie Thomas on why it's wrong to ban her Black Lives Matter novel 'The Hate U Give': Read an excerpt from the Black Lives Matter-inspired YA novel By clicking “Accept All ...

The book was “Monster,” by Walter Dean Myers ... Take her 2017 debut, "The Hate U Give," for example. It follows a Black girl named Starr who witnesses the shooting of a young Black ...

My interest in banned books is how I discovered Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give. I have always loved reading stories ...

The very concept of the book is painfully true. In college, Thomas wrote a short story after the 2009 fatal shooting of Oscar Grant that would later served as the bones for “The Hate U Give.” ...

I had a rare experience while reading Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give. I was two-thirds of the way through the book and had to put it down and remind myself that this was a work of fiction.

Thomas has just published a brand-new book, “Concrete Rose,” a prequel that tells the coming of age story of Maverick Carter, the father character in “The Hate U Give.” In “Concrete Rose ...

THIS IS KELLY CRADDICK AND SHE SAYS IN THIS LAWSUIT THAT HER FRESHMAN HONORS CLASS AT PORTALES HIGH SCHOOL WANTED TO READ THIS BOOK. THE HATE U GIVE WAS A BOOK THAT WAS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED.

Angie Thomas, author of “The Hate U Give,” will speak at Kansas State University in Manhattan in April. Her new book, “On the Come Up,” will be released Feb. 5. Anissa Hidouk Courtesy ...