En cours de chargement...
From the visionary Angie Thomas comes a story about hip-hop, prejudice, and fighting for your dreams. Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. It's hard to get your come up, though, when you're labeled "trouble" at school and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. But Bri's success is all that stands between her family and homelessness, so she doesn't just want to make it - she has to.
Even if it means becoming exactly what the public expects her to be.
Believe in Your Dream
Sixteen years old Bri has a dream: to make as a rapper not because she is her father's daughter but because she is talented and has what is needed to make it.
However, her mother who has still to accept Bri's father's death cannot accept the path her daughter wants to walk on. As a black girl, especially with a former addict mother and in a poverty-stricken neighborhood , she fears Bri will only attract those who killed her father.
Written in a funny, down-to-earth yet heartbreaking way, On the Come Up is a bowl of fresh air in the young-adults literature.