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

Angie Thomas

Start date: January 1, 2018

Finish date: January 31, 2018

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Jan 29, 2018 Stacey rated it it was amazing

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

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Sep 27, 2018 Carrie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mgr, inspiring, heroine-i-adore, tear-jerker, best-friends, brother-sister, realistic-fiction, social-issues, heartbreaking

There isn't enough stars available for me to give this book, it it beyond 5 stars. So beyond 5 stars.

The Hate U Give,
is real,
it is truth,
no lies told.
Powerful,
meaningful,
inspiring.
Heartbreaking,
anger/rage inducing.

It is 2018, and it disgusts me that we live in world where this book is life for some, for many. Fucking police brutality, systematic racism has to stop. What makes someone think that their white skin makes them any better then some with brown or black? It doesn't. We live in ...more

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Sep 04, 2017 Paula rated it really liked it

Shelves: age-young-adult, fiction, quick-reads, lit-african-american

Spoiler Alert...

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

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Nov 10, 2017 Marcia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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. ...more

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