On The COME UP By Angie Thomas - NEW Hardcover Book - Etsy Best Price! Compelling Teen Musician & Prejudice Fiction Novel!
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NEW hardcover book, compelling teen & young adult music & prejudice fiction
novel! Etsy Best Price! 100% customer happiness guaranteed!Purchases of $35 and above qualify for FREE shipping! Buy more from our store and save $$$....Product Details/SynopsisSixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri’s got massive shoes to fill.But it’s hard to get your come up when you’re labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral . . . for all the wrong reasons.Bri soon finds herself at the center of a controversy, portrayed by the media as more menace than MC. But with an eviction notice staring her family down, Bri doesn’t just want to make it—she has to. Even if it means becoming the very thing the public has made her out to be.Insightful, unflinching, and full of heart, On the Come Up is an ode to hip hop from one of the most influential literary voices of a generation. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; and about how, especially for young black people, freedom of speech isn’t always free. Grade level : 8 - 12 Lexile measure : HL550L Item Weight : 1.15 pounds Hardcover : 464 pages ISBN-10 : 0062498568 ISBN-13 : 978-0062498564 Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.41 x 8.25 inches Reading level : 14 - 17 years Publisher : Balzer + Bray; First Edition Language: : English
novel! Etsy Best Price! 100% customer happiness guaranteed!Purchases of $35 and above qualify for FREE shipping! Buy more from our store and save $$$....Product Details/SynopsisSixteen-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. Grade level : 8 - 12 Lexile measure : HL550L Item Weight : 1.15 pounds Hardcover : 464 pages ISBN-10 : 0062498568 ISBN-13 : 978-0062498564 Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.41 x 8.25 inches Reading level : 14 - 17 years Publisher : Balzer + Bray; First Edition Language: : English
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