The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, William C. Morris Award Winner, National Book Awar Longlist, Printz Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King Honor Book. The Hate U Give, now a major motion picture, is a young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It follows events in the life of a 16-year-old black girl, Starr Carter, who is drawn to activism after she witnesses the police shooting of a childhood friend.
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Incredible combination of extremely well written, extremely readable, extremely topical and extremely effective.
Incredible combination of extremely well written, extremely readable, extremely topical and extremely effective.
I know it's been banned in some places, but I'd put it in high school English classes. We need to see life from the viewpoint of people who aren't just like us. How can we understand each other if we can't see what someone else deals with. The author does an excellent job of expressing the lives and frustrations of people who are marginalized because of the color of their skin. I had a friend who was downright petrified one afternoon when he saw his tail light had gone out, and he had to drive that evening. His life is different than mine. I've had friends who had to give The Talk to their kids, and who wrestled with the Harvard vs. Howard question. Besides being on an important topic, the book is also written so well it should be a classic regardless of the societal importance.
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