Book Review: THE HATE U GIVE by Angie Thomas
FACTS ABOUT THE BOOK Title: THE HATE U GIVE Author: Angie Thomas Publisher: Balzer + Bray Price: $17.99 (Hardcover) Pages: 444 Genre: Police Criminality & Injustice against black people, Black Power Year: 2017 Amazon Link: click here BACK OF THE BOOK ( Careful! Contains Spoilers that I did not know before reading the book! ) WHAT IS IT ABOUT? This book is about 16-years old Starr who is a black girl that lives in a poor black neighbourhood in which gangs and drugdealers and gunshots are a daily issue. Starr and her brother attend a school in the suburbs and are among the only black kids at their school. Starr feels like she has two different personalities, depending on whether she surrounds herself with her black or her white friends. SPOILERS: (happens in the first 20 pages of the book) As Starr and her black best friend Khalil drive home from a party they get controlled by a police...