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From Powell's website: The Young Adult Book Club is a group of teens who meet monthly to talk about YA fiction. We’re fans of strong stories, diverse characters, and Rainbow Rowell (of course!). This month our group meets to discuss The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Join us!
Angie Thomas made her debut with the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning novel, The Hate U Give. Thomas’s novel garnered a number of awards and recognitions including the Coretta Scott King Award for the best novel by an African American author for children and the Michael L. Printz Honor for best novel for teens. As well, The Hate U Give was nominated for the 2018 Carnegie Medal and named to the National Book Awards longlist for Young Adult Literature, and was recently adapted into a major motion picture. Thomas returns now with her highly anticipated second novel, On the Come Up. Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. After all, as the daughter of an…
Superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the launch of an inventive, hilarious, and suspenseful new contemporary fantasy trilogy inspired by African American history and folklore. It’s not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool — like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much — like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events launch Nic and two friends on a hunt for a powerful magic tool she’s never…