![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal, The Hate U Give does not pit two characters from opposite backgrounds together so they might find common ground. ![]() It does not come without its drawbacks she has to hold back her personality with her school friends, whereas some people in her neighborhood think she’s arrogant and uppity just because she goes to a “fancy white school.” The neighborhood she lives in is not particularly well-off and is primarily a black neighborhood, whereas the school she goes to is middle class and almost exclusively white. Thomas makes for an inclusive narrative by allowing Starr to interact with two different worlds. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl’s struggle for justice. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.īut what Starr does-or does not-say could upend her community. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. 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. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. ![]()
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