Bibliograph

On the come up, Angie Thomas

Type

Label

On the come up, Angie Thomas

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

HL550L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

On the come up

Responsibility statement

Angie Thomas

Summary

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 made her out to be

Target audience

adolescent

Classification