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Item Nr: B 125617 Title: On the Come Up
Grade Lvl: JS Author: Thomas, Angie
Length: 447 Prod/Pub: Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins
Copyright: 2019 Series:
Book Type: FC Biographee:
Copies: 6 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Sixteen-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. Teacher preview strongly recommended. Urban fiction. Realistic. IL 9-12. AR 3.8. RC 4.2. Lexile 550. Iowa High School Award 2020-2021.

  Subjects:
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  1459 - COMMUNITY LIFE/NEIGHBORHOODS
  1433 - DIVERSITY
  488 - FAMILY
  558 - GIRLS
  1298 - HIGH INTEREST/LOW VOCABULARY
  1675 - LEXILE 500-599
  772 - MUSIC
  700 - REALISTIC FICTION
  994 - SINGERS
  1999 - TEENS (SOCIAL THEMES)
  1960 - URBAN
  2061 - YOUNG ADULT (RANDOM ORDER)