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📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Hate U Give
AUTHOR: Angie Thomas
@angiethomas
Publisher: Balzer and Bray @balzerandbray
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: February 28, 2017
“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”
Review:
I read this book because I was doing The Reading Rush and I needed a prompt that was for both a movie I had seen but a book I hadn’t read, as well as a genre I wanted to read more of (African American authors).
The movie was very eye opening, and the book, even more so. It is so important now more than ever to read these voices and learn more from a different view. This book was hard at times, but it was also lovely.
You can see my video review here:
Small Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor 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, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. 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 upend her community. It could also endanger her life.
*****
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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