Over 500 members of the KidLit community—including Sabaa Tahir, Angie Thomas, and Jason Reynolds—have signed an open letter to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, calling for the organization to break its silence on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has so far claimed the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-03-04 19:00:45 UTC ]
The best-selling author just found out that her debut novel is soon to be on the first lady’s bedside table. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-28 10:00:04 UTC ]
Angie Thomas has the #10 book in the country with ‘Concrete Rose,’ a prequel to ‘The Hate U Give.’ Plus Holly Whitaker teaches readers – including Chrissy Teigen – to ‘Quit Like a Woman,’ and recent events boost sales of ‘On Tyranny’ and ‘1984.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
The New England Independent Booksellers Association launched its virtual fall conference with a conversation between YA authors Angie Thomas and Justin Reynolds, who emphasized their commitment to dispelling harmful assumptions about young Black men. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
Paramount Players has brought in producer and writer Kay Oyegun for a movie adaptation of Angie Thomas’ YA novel On the Come Up (Walker). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-12 04:19:57 UTC ]
‘On the Come Up,’ Angie Thomas’s follow up to ‘The Hate U Give,’ debuts at #2 in children’s frontlist fiction. Plus ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ by Marlon James lands at #3 in hardcover fiction, and new nonfiction titles merge self-help and success. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Angie Thomas' follow-up to The Hate U Give, her hugely successful début novel, shines a light on modern day america and the deep divisions that run through it. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A police force in the US has called for The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely to be removed from a high school’s summer reading list, according to news reports. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Hate U Give' by Angie Thomas and 'All American Boys' by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely have been challenged on a high school summer reading list by police and other supporters. The post YA Novels Prompt Police Objections to Summer Reading List in South Carolina appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Geraldine McCaughrean and Sydney Smith have won the 2018 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals respectively, with Amnesty honours going to Angie Thomas and Levi Thomas. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The award-winning authors Kwame Alexander, Jason Reynolds, Angie Thomas, and Jacqueline Woodson will join podcaster and activist DeRay Mckesson to discuss social justice and positive representation in young adult literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give is this year's recipient of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lani Sarem’s Handbook for Mortals was taken off the No 1 spot after fellow YA authors, sceptical of ‘a book that no one has heard of’, uncovered a pattern of strategic preordersA young adult novel has been removed from the No 1 position on the New York Times bestseller lists, after detective... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Angie Thomas talks about her debut YA novel, The Hate U Give, which tells the story of Starr, who is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend by a police officer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]