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I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. It's the story of a teenage girl who has grown up in and still lives in a poor black neighborhood but now attends a private school where most of her classmates are rich and white. She struggles to balance living in these two very different worlds. In one world her life is full of gang violence and drugs, while in the other world her friends have bedrooms that are bigger than her entire house and are afraid to visit her neighborhood. Then she
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Jan 06, 2021
Olympia
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it was amazing
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Excellent book, sat on my shelf for so long and finally I dove into it, and I never wanted to come out. You must see both sides to understand but yet it's not enough. Thank Angie Thomas for writing this story. Everyone in this country should read it. Starr, Khalil and the rest will stay with me for a long time. I've swapped it to a school in PA. Hopefully they will enjoy it as much as I did.
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Jul 11, 2019
Cambria
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it was amazing
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Read it in one day. Fantastic.
