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On the come up / Angie Thomas.
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 your 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062498564
- ISBN: 0062498568
- ISBN: 9780062498588
- Physical Description: 458 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | HL550L Lexile Decoding demand: 93 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 79 (high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 3.8 13 500135. |
| Awards Note: | New York Times Best Seller, YA 2019 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Rap musicians > Fiction. African Americans > Fiction. Freedom of speech > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Young adult fiction. Teen fiction. |
Available copies
- 47 of 47 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Crawford County.
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- 0 current holds with 47 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Crawford County Library-Recklein Memorial-Cuba | YAF THO (Text) | 33431000549400 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
| Crawford County Library-Steelville | YAF THO (Text) | 33431000655710 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
