On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

This book is about a teenage girl named Bri who strives to become a successful rapper while navigating the immense pressures of poverty and her family's difficult past.

 

This book contains: activism, alcohol, alternate gender/sexual ideologies, anxiety, controversial cultural, gender, historical, political, racial, religious and social commentary, death/grief, deception, derogatory terms, discrimination, drugs (use/abuse/dealing), inflammatory political and racial commentary, misogyny, murder, oppression, parental neglect, profanity (pervasively vulgar), racism, sexual activities (minor/not explicit), smoking, stealing, and violence.