In an article listing several new young adult novels drawn from real life shootings of black youth, described Angie Thomas’, author of “The Hate U Give,” experience at a reading. “A group of girls in middle school told her that they had never met an author who looked like them.” Angie Thomas was also profiled in New York Magazine.
New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 21, 2017 | Article | 0 comments