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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)

Angie Thomas

Start date: December 18, 2023

Finish date: January 4, 2024

Why we're reading this: The Hate U Give is YA for Adults Book Club's January selection! This book club will be held in person at …more
[close] The Hate U Give is YA for Adults Book Club's January selection! This book club will be held in person at Central Library on Thursday, 1/4 at 6:00 PM. Visit our website or call 515-283-4152 to register or for more details. Registration is required for this program

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Apr 08, 2022 Karna Converse rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Front-seat view of the life of a black teenager who lives in an inner-city neighborhood and attends a prep high school across town

This first-person narration reads partly like a diary, partly like a conversation, and paints a picture that could easily be seen any evening in graphic detail on the news: Poverty. Drugs. Guns. Racism. Riot. But The Hate U Give goes deeper than a news report—it reveals the conversations that black parents are having with their young children; the boundaries their tee ...more

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Feb 25, 2021 Misty B rated it it was amazing

This book had me in my emotions from cover to cover. I laughed, cried, cheered, and screamed in frustration. This brilliantly puts the limelight on topics all too often swept under the rug. As many times we see this stuff on the news and in our own neighborhoods. Yet we still don't get it, or it wouldn't continue to happen. ...more

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