In 2021, Angie returned to the world of Garden Heights with CONCRETE ROSE, a prequel to THE HATE U GIVE focused on seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter that debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In 2020, Angie released FIND YOUR VOICE: A Guided Journal to Writing Your Truth as a tool to help aspiring writers tell their stories. THE HATE U GIVE was adapted into a critically acclaimed film from Fox 2000, starring Amandla Stenberg and directed by George Tillman, Jr.Īngie’s second novel, ON THE COME UP, is a #1 New York Times bestseller as well, and a film is in development with Paramount Pictures with Angie acting as a producer.

Morris Debut Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA), the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize (UK), and the Deutscher Jugendliterapreis (Germany). Critical reception Concrete Rose was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Booklist, 1 Kirkus Reviews, 2 School Library Journal, 3 and Shelf Awareness. It was later acquired by the Balzer+Bray imprint of HarperCollins Publishers in a 13-publisher auction and debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, winning the ALA’s William C. Concrete Rose is a young adult novel by Angie Thomas, published January 12, 2021, by Balzer + Bray. Her debut novel, THE HATE U GIVE, started as a senior project in college. She can also still rap if needed.Īngie is an inaugural winner of the Walter Dean Myers Grant 2015, awarded by We Need Diverse Books. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Belhaven University and an unofficial degree in Hip Hop. She is a former teen rapper whose greatest accomplishment was an article about her in Right-On Magazine. Hello My name is Max and I will be manufacturing a book review for Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas today.

Angie Thomas was born and raised in Mississippi, but now calls Atlanta her home.

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