Teen fiction: the best reads for the Easter break
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On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (Walker Books, £7.99) is the eagerly-anticipated second novel by the author of The Hate You Give and it does not disappoint. Sixteen-year-old Bri lives in a hard part of town surrounded by violence, her mum is struggling to make ends meet and the threat of hunger and homelessness hang around her constantly. But Bri has a plan to get out of there, to get her whole family out of there: she’s going to become the greatest rapper of all time, greater even than her dad, a legend in her neighbourhood. As fame beckons and the vultures descend can she keep hold of her sense of self even if it means risking her dream? Thomas’s writing is fresh, bold and she pulls no punches; On the Come Up is gripping, moving and full of heart.