Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018Winner of the Children's Book of the Year 2018 at the British Book Awards#1 New York Times bestsellerNow a major motion picture, starring Amandla...
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018Winner of the Children's Book of the Year 2018 at the British Book Awards#1 New York Times bestsellerNow a major motion picture, starring Amandla...
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Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018
Winner of the Children's Book of the Year 2018 at the British Book Awards
#1 New York Times bestseller
Now a major motion picture, starring Amandla Stenberg
A Teen Vogue Best YA Book of the Year
"Stunning."—John Green "A masterpiece."—The Huffington Post "An essential read for everyone."—Teen Vogue "Outstanding." —The Guardian
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed.
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice.
Angie Thomas was born, raised, and still resides in Jackson, Mississippi. She is a former teen rapper, holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Belhaven University and an unofficial degree in Hip Hop. She can also still rap if needed. She is an inaugural winner of the Walter Dean Myers Grant 2015, awarded by We Need Diverse Books. Film rights for her debut novel, The Hate U Give, have been optioned by Fox 2000 with George Tillman attached to direct and Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg set to star.
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Starred review from November 28, 2016 At home in a neighborhood riven with gang strife, Starr Carter, 16, is both the grocer’s daughter and an outsider, because she attends private school many miles away. But at Williamson Prep, where she’s among a handful of black students, she can’t be herself either: no slang, no anger, no attitude. That version of herself—“Williamson Starr”—“doesn’t give anyone a reason to call her ghetto.” She’s already wrestling with what Du Bois called “double consciousness” when she accepts a ride home from Khalil, a childhood friend, who is then pulled over and shot dead by a white cop. Starr’s voice commands attention from page one, a conflicted but clear-eyed lens through which debut author Thomas examines Khalil’s killing, casual racism at Williamson, and Starr’s strained relationship with her white boyfriend. Though Thomas’s story is heartbreakingly topical, its greatest strength is in its authentic depiction of a teenage girl, her loving family, and her attempts to reconcile what she knows to be true about their lives with the way those lives are depicted—and completely undervalued—by society at large. Ages 14–up. Agent: Brooks Sherman, Bent Agency.
soso17970 - I really didn’t think I would like this book because it seemed so mature. But that turned out to be the exact reason I loved it. The hate u give takes the reader into a whole different world. The lovable main character, Starr goes through a lot of drama with family, friends, and her neighborhoods. The book balances action, theme and comical relief very well and reader will definitely take something away from it. Big warning, only read this book if you are 13+, lots of swearing and mature topics.
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soso17970 - I really didn’t think I would like this book because it seemed so mature. But that turned out to be the exact reason I loved it. The hate u give takes the reader into a whole different world. The lovable main character, Starr goes through a lot of drama with family, friends, and her neighborhoods. The book balances action, theme and comical relief very well and reader will definitely take something away from it. Big warning, only read this book if you are 13+, lots of swearing and mature topics.
