Carnegie Shadowing Group News

This week’s featured book, also available as an ebook through the local library, has been greatly in demand with our shadowers.  Eagerly awaited by fans of Angie Thomas’s first book, The Hate U Give, her second, On the Come Up, is equally engaging and thought-provoking.  Whilst not a sequel to The Hate U Give in the true sense, this book is set in the same town and in the months following the events of THUG. As Bri struggles with a sense of injustice, and make herself heard, Thomas falls upon her own background as a child rapper to give her a voice. This is another socially important book while the inclusion of Bri’s raps, reflecting her inner strength, make it even more gripping and far from bleak or without hope.

On The Come Up by Angie Thomas

Bri Jackson has big ambitions to become one of the world’s most famous rappers. Alongside her dreams, Bri has big shoes to fill, as her father was a formidable underground rapper whose life was cut tragically short as a consequence of gang warfare. Home life is challenging for Bri and her family whose daily life is battle against the backdrop of poverty and discrimination.

What Bushey Meads Shadowers say:

“This book is about how Bri wants to become a rapper and her journey. She goes through a lot of things that jeopardise her relationship with family and friends but always finds a way to solve it. I loved this book even though it had some swear words because it talked about things that actually happen in real life so it’s not all fictional.”   Anastasija Yr8