The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas • 2017
Devastation Rating
race police violence young adult identity
Our Take
Starr Carter watches her friend Khalil get shot by a police officer and then has to testify about it in two separate worlds — her Black neighborhood and her white prep school. Thomas does not soften the machinery of institutional racism. Starr's anger is the most honest voice in the book.
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