The Hate U Give
The Hate U GiveAngie Thomas
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The Hate U Give (2017)

Angie Thomas

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

The Hate U Give is a 2017 young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It is Thomas's debut novel, expanded from a short story she wrote in college in reaction to the police shooting of Oscar Grant. The book is narrated by Starr Carter, a 16-year-old black girl from a poor neighborhood who attends an elite private school in a predominantly white, affluent part of the city. Starr becomes entangled in a national news story after she witnesses a white police officer shoot and kill her childhood friend, Khalil. She speaks up about the shooting in increasingly public ways, and social tensions culminate in a riot after a grand jury decides not to indict the police officer for the shooting. The Hate U Give was published on February 28, 2017, by HarperCollins imprint Balzer + Bray, which had won a bidding war for the rights to the novel. The book was a commercial success, debuting at number one on The New York Times young adult best-seller list, where it remained for 50 weeks. It won several awards and received critical praise for Thomas's writing and timely subject matter. In writing the novel, Thomas attempted to expand readers' understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement as well as difficulties faced by black Americans who employ code switching. These themes, as well as the vulgar language, attracted some controversy and caused the book to be one of the most challenged books of 2017 and 2018 according to the American Library Association.

ISBN:
9780062498540
Length:
451 pages

Genres: young adult

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Reviews17

Little Book Owl
Loved it

I really liked the writing I really liked Star as a character and I really liked seeing star's Community as a whole of the people kind of coming together after this devastating thing has happened and rallying together to kind of support each other and find Justice

readbyzoe
Loved it

This is a necessary book for our current social and political climate. I think that every single person, no matter age, race, gender, whatever, should read this, as it may open their minds to the injustices that are occurring and may help them reevaluate their past actions, as it did for me.

Between Chapters
Loved it

This book has an a very powerful message, very needed and timely message about the black lives matter movement but beyond that it's just wonderfully written in my opinion.

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WordNerds
Loved it

it is based on the black lives matter movement and it is about a teenage an American girl who sees one of her friends killed by a police officer and she has to figure out if she's going to speak up what she's going to say how that's going to endanger her family it's so good