8 starred reviews · Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best · William C. Morris Award Winner · National Book Award Longlist · Printz Honor Book · Coretta Scott King Honor Book · #1 New York Times Bestseller!
“Absolutely riveting!” —Jason Reynolds
“Stunning.” —John Green
“This story is necessary. This story is important.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“Heartbreakingly topical.” —Publishers … Green
“This story is necessary. This story is important.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“Heartbreakingly topical.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A marvel of verisimilitude.” —Booklist (starred review)
“A powerful, in-your-face novel.” —Horn Book (starred review)
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.
But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.
Want more of Garden Heights? Catch Maverick and Seven’s story in Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas’s powerful prequel to The Hate U Give.
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An absolute MUST READ for all generations, genders, ethnicities and races.
This is a thought provoking must read book.
Every American should read this book.
Many years ago, not more than ten miles from me, Medgar Evers was murdered in his driveway. He died there, witnessed by his wife and children, and I learned of this “HATE” for the first time. It started the story for me & has impacted my entire life.
I grew up, a proud participant in desegregation, and in the Civil Rights Movement….fighting against “The Hate” in every way I could, in this story that, I’m ashamed to say, is still being told, in 2018.
Angie Thomas tells it, real & true, in her book, “The Hate You Give”
I wish with all my soul, it was, just fiction…but it is Not.
Everyone of us, who fight racism and hate, needs to read this story…needs to share this story…Give it to another, as we gave flowers to cops, dressed in riot gear, in 1970.
The Hate You Give, is the TRUTH, and the truth, MUST. BE. TOLD.
BRAVO, Angie Thomas, for doing so !
I read this YA novel by Angie Thomas based on a friend’s recommendation and I wasn’t disappointed, in fact, I loved it. The story brought me inside a different world, one with hard choices about loyalty, family, safety and advocacy.
Starr Carter is in a tough spot when she is the primary witness to her friend’s murder by a policeman. Starr faces pressure from her community to fight back against injustice, but she’s only 16. As the situation escalates, we get to see Starr blossom into a passionate advocate.
There are laughs along the way. I loved feeling like I knew Starr and her family members and the joys and challenges they faced living in a poor black community. Highly recommended for a perspective on the world that is seldom heard outside of certain bubbles.
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I love this book so much and it is so realsic of what’s going on now of police brutality.
A teen is caught up in both police and gang violence after one of the most horrifying nights of her life.
This is one of those “less is more” books. I wouldn’t read much more about it, if you can help it. It reads like the ultimate beach book–a seriously skilled page turner that I ended up reading when I shouldn’t–punching on all cylinders, all the time. A human book, about the complexities of humanity. Highly recommend.
One of the best books I have ever read. It’s very well-written. Angie Thomas does a great job of making you become emotionally invested in this book. It’s very realistic and especially perfectly relatable to current events. I especially love the development of Starr, the main character, throughout the book. It’s a book I would recommend for everyone to read!
The Hate U Give gave me first hand experience about the injustice and prejudice the black community faces. It was informative particularly of the culture of the characters and those they looked to for inspiration like Tupac.
I admired the strength and bravery of the characters who stood up for what they believed and I hope that I can do the same if the time comes.
I would recommend that everyone reads this book no matter age, race, ethnicity or nationality.
This book is a brilliant way of expressing the racism that people experience. The story of Starr and her struggle to cope with what happened to her best friend is moving and tragic and memorable. This is not a book that you can read really fast and be done with. This book you have to take it slow and really think about it. Angie Thomas did a great job with this book, and I recommend it for all ages.
Everyone, EVERYONE needs to read this book. It touches topics that need to be talked about.
This is the story of 16-year-old Starr, a girl who witnesses her life-long friend get killed by a police officer while unarmed. She balances between two worlds while the murder makes national news: the one where she lives surrounded by non-traditional families and neighbors who’ve seen it all and gangbangers and business owners in a black community filled with people whose choices are never easy, and the one where she goes to a mostly-white private school at which she becomes a completely different version of herself so nobody knows about her home world. But it’s so much more than that. And that’s why I am going to ask people who can’t relate to this story—particularly white people—to read it as soon as they possibly can.
The reason I believe reading books by people who aren’t your and your experience’s doppelgänger is important is because it allows us to pluck at the threads of truth about other peoples’ lives, experiences, secrets at our own pace and in our own heads as we go along (note: I am white). We get to know them, see them, emotionally connect with them. Read enough of these stories, and we become able to see the real people in our world who are represented by those characters. We become more empathetic to and more understanding of their situations, even when they are so vastly different from our own that our knee-jerk reactions to their real-life words/actions/decisions tend to be denial, rejection. A disbelief because it doesn’t seem right or doesn’t feel comfortable.
Reading these stories connects us in a way our world needs right now, and THUG is the book we should all be reading.
awesome~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FYA ASS BOOK MUUUUSSSTTT READ !!!!!!
As a first book for this author, a remarkable story has been written. The topic is current and socially appropriate. The use of language is very good – it’s well written. Her choice of characters are excellent and well defined. The plot runs smoothly and her ending seems right for the book. I would highly recommend this book.
This was a mandatory requirement read for my personal children. It is a story that all young adults and other should read and think!
Guys. You HAVE to read this. PLEASE.
Don’t even read it for me. Read it for Starr. Seven. Kenya, DeVante, Chris. For Emmett Till and for Khalil.
For Oscar.
Aiyana.
Trayvon.
Rekia.
Michael.
Eric.
Tamir.
John.
Ezell.
Sandra.
Freddie.
Alton.
Philando.
Guys. Be the voice.
Read the book. Educate yourselves on the violence that has been happening for hundreds of years, not just recently. Protest peacefully. Raise your voice. Fight back in small ways. Never forget. Don’t EVER forget. <3
GOOD
I love this book.