01847cam a2200337 4500 1147869385 TxAuBib ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u TxAuBib Thomas, Angie, author. On the come up / Angie Thomas. First edition. New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] ©2019. 1 online resource (447 pages.) As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time-- and has massive shoes to fill. She's been labeled a hoodlum at school, and the fridge at home is empty after her mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral-- for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed by the media as a menace, Bri makes a choice-- and becomes the very thing the public has made her out to be. The odds are stacked against her, and freedom of speech isn't always free. -- adapted from jacket. When sixteen-year-old Bri, an aspiring rapper, pours her anger and frustration into her first song, she finds herself at the center of a controversy. African Americans Juvenile fiction. African Americans Fiction. Freedom of speech Juvenile fiction. Freedom of speech Fiction. Rap musicians Juvenile fiction. Rap musicians Fiction. Teenagers Juvenile fiction. Young adult fiction. Bildungsromans. Fiction. Juvenile works. Young adult works. http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=76&titleID=3376060