Angie Thomas has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 1,308 ratings. The most-rated is The Hate U Give.
The Hate U Give
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Eight starred reviews · William C. Morris Award Winner · National Book Award Longlist · Printz Honor Book · Coretta Scott King Honor Book · Number-One New York Times Best Seller! "Absolutely riveting!" (Jason Reynolds) "Stunning." (John Green) "This story is necessary. This story is important." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) "Heartbreakingly topical." (Publishers Weekly, starred review) "A marvel of verisimilitude." (Booklist, starred review) "A powerful, in-your-face novel." (The Horn Book, starred review) Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does - or does not - say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. And don't miss On the Come Up, Angie Thomas's powerful follow-up to The Hate U Give.
©2017 Angela Thomas (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
On the Come Up
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2020 Audie Awards® finalist - Young adult number one New York Times best seller · Seven starred reviews · Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book Don't miss this audiobook, Audible's Young Adult Audiobook of the Year and an Audie Award finalist! "For all the struggle in this book, Thomas rarely misses a step as a writer. Thomas continues to hold up that mirror with grace and confidence. We are lucky to have her, and lucky to know a girl like Bri." (The New York Times Book Review) 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. Insightful, unflinching, and full of heart, On the Come Up is an ode to hip hop from one of the most influential literary voices of a generation. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; and about how, especially for young black people, freedom of speech isn’t always free. Hear about more of life in Garden Heights from Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give and Concrete Rose.
©2018 Angela Thomas (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
Concrete Rose
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International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights 17 years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. If there’s one thing 17-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.
©2021 Angie Thomas (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers
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The Hate U Give [French Version]
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"L'année de mes 12 ans mes parents ont eu deux conversations avec moi. La première, c'était sur les choux et les roses [...] La deuxième conversation, c'était pour m'expliquer quoi faire si un flic me contrôlait. Ça a énervé maman qui a dit à papa que j'étais trop jeune pour ça. Il a répondu qu'il n'y avait pas d'âge pour être arrêté ou se faire descendre." Starr a seize ans, elle est noire et vit dans un quartier difficile, rythmé par les guerres entre gangs, la drogue et les descentes de police. Tous les jours, elle rejoint son lycée blanc situé dans une banlieue chic ; tous les jours, elle fait le grand écart entre ses deux vies, ses deux mondes. Mais tout vole en éclats le soir où son ami d'enfance Khalil est tué. Sous ses yeux, de trois balles dans le dos. Par un policier trop nerveux. Starr est la seule témoin. Tandis que son quartier s'embrase, tandis que la police cherche à enterrer l'affaire, tandis que les gangs font pression sur elle pour qu'elle se taise, Starr va apprendre à surmonter son deuil et sa colère ; et à redresser la tête. La haine qu'on donne, traduction de l'anglais The Hate U Give. THUG.
©2017/2018/2019 Édition originale publiée en anglais aux États-Unis par Balzer + Bray, une maison de HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007, sous le titre "The Hate U Give". / Angie Thomas. Édition publiée avec l’accord de AC Thomas Writes, LLC c/o The Bent Agency en collaboration avec leur agent L’Autre Agence, Paris, France. Traduction française : Éditions Nathan, SEJER. / "The Hate You Give", film artwork. 2018 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved (P)2019 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche
The Hate U Give
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16-årige, Starr, er eneste vidne til, at hendes ubevæbnede ven, Khalil, bliver skudt og dræbt af en hvid politimand. Indtil nu har Starr balanceret mellem det sorte lokalmiljø, hvor hun bor, og den finere privatskole i forstaden, som hun går på. Men da nedskydningen af Khalil bliver forsidestof over hele landet, er hun nødt til at beslutte, om og hvordan hun vil råbe op, særligt da nogle af hendes venner på skolen antyder, at Khalil selv var ude om det.
©2017 Gyldendal. Translated by Betty Frank Simonsen (P)2017 Gyldendal
The Search for WondLa
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When a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary that Eva Nine was raised in by the robot Muthr, the 12-year-year-old girl is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her, for she knows that other humans exist, because of an item she treasures: a scrap of cardboard on which is depicted a young girl, an adult, and a robot, with the strange word, WondLa.
Tony DiTerlizzi honors traditional children's literature in this totally original space-age adventure - one that is as complex as an alien planet, but as simple as a child's wish for a place to belong.
©2010 Simon and Schuster Audio