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This novel is perfect. It hits hard on #blacklivesmatter and made me feel it. It mad me sad, angry, happy, and maybe a little hopeful.
Starr goes to a mostly white well-to-do high school that her parents drive her to from their poor neighborhood. While attending a party with her friends from the neighborhood where she lives, she has a past crush drive her home. It's on the way home they are pulled over by the police and she experiences first hand the injustice that black people experience in the ...more
Starr goes to a mostly white well-to-do high school that her parents drive her to from their poor neighborhood. While attending a party with her friends from the neighborhood where she lives, she has a past crush drive her home. It's on the way home they are pulled over by the police and she experiences first hand the injustice that black people experience in the ...more
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Wow. This book is relevant to American times. From the recent interactions between PD and African American. It's a book about racial divide but also one the attempts to cross off stereotypes and biases.
Starr has a white boyfriend and when she sees her friend get killed by an officer-she questions the survivorship of that relationship. Thankfully they appear to move past it when Chris steps up and goes to her neighborhood because he's disgusted that the officer wasn't indicted.
Th ...more
Wow. This book is relevant to American times. From the recent interactions between PD and African American. It's a book about racial divide but also one the attempts to cross off stereotypes and biases.
Starr has a white boyfriend and when she sees her friend get killed by an officer-she questions the survivorship of that relationship. Thankfully they appear to move past it when Chris steps up and goes to her neighborhood because he's disgusted that the officer wasn't indicted.
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This stays with you. With me. As a person of color, this story is ever relatable; need you and me to speak up; and bravery means we soldier on even when it's scary and frightening...we keep on.
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it's about civil rights. every people have it. it's not common issue in young adult novel. give me another view about humanity.
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