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SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD STARR CARTER moves between two worlds: the poor black 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, Khalil's death is' a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger, Starr's best friend at school suggests he may have had it coming. When it becomes clear the police have little interest in investigating the incident, protesters take to the streets and Starr's neighborhood becomes a war zone. 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 destroy her community. tt could also endanger her life.
Angie Thomas's searing debut about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence, heart, and unflinching honesty.
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black lives matter, Fiction, National Book Awards Longlist, Race relations, African American teenagers, Police shootings, Witnesses, Police-community relations, Juvenile fiction, YOUNG ADULT FICTION, People & Places, United States, African American, Social Themes, Emotions & Feelings, Prejudice & Racism, racism, young adult, social issues, teen, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction, Race relations, fiction, nyt:young-adult-hardcover=2017-03-19, New York Times bestseller, collectionID:EanesChallenge, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism, collectionID:bannedbooks, Black lives matter, National book awards longlist, African american teenagers, Young adult fiction, People & places, United states, African american, Social themes, Emotions & feelings, Prejudice & racism, Racism, Young adult, Social issues, Teen, Nyt:young-adult-hardcover=2017-03-19, New york times bestsellerPeople
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The Hate U Give
2019-01, Moon young adult
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El odio que das
2019-10, Grantravesía, Gran Travsía
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The Hate U Give
2018, Balzer + Bray
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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.
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