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Unarmed, he’s shot by police.\nHorrified, she’s the only witness.
\nTelling the truth will endanger her family – can she do it?<\/p>\n
Unarmed, he’s shot by police.
\nHorrified, she’s the only witness.
\nTelling the truth will endanger her family – can she do it?<\/p>\n
At 16, Starr should be concerned with grades, love, and her future – not drive-by shootings and police brutality<\/a> in her poor neighborhood, not white kids at her suburban private school “protesting” Kahlil’s death as a way to skip class, not worrying if her testimony will bring down the wrath of gang members and police.<\/p>\n Happy book birthday to The Hate U Give<\/em> – wish it could be purely fiction, instead of ‘straight from the headlines’ lived experience…<\/p>\n How can we stop this cycle of threat, miscommunication, and death? Book info<\/strong>:The Hate U Give \/ Angie Thomas. Balzer + Bray, 2017.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>: Kahlil’s murder during a routine traffic stop upends 16 year old Starr’s world as she mourns her friend’s death with her inner city neighbors, struggles to explain it to her white prep school classmates, and must decide whether to testify against that police officer, endangering everything.<\/p>\n Starr is two versions of herself – automatically cool black girl at the suburban prep school her parents sacrifice to pay for and then “Big Mav’s daughter who work in the store” in their poor neighborhood.<\/p>\n Truth or safety? Gangs and their turf wars are woven into Garden Heights. If white boyfriend Chris finds out that Starr is the only witness to Kahlil’s death, surely he’ll treat her differently, and that she just couldn’t bear.<\/p>\n Too true, too real, The Hate U Give<\/em> moves from one fatal mistake to a torrent of prejudgment and violence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unarmed, he’s shot by police. Horrified, she’s the only witness. Telling the truth will endanger her family – can she do it? At 16, Starr should be concerned with grades, love, and her future – not drive-by shootings and police brutality in her poor neighborhood, not white kids at her suburban private school “protesting” Kahlil’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[163,22,4,75,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,43,39,49,184,193,15,9,21,268,35,33,3,8,28],"class_list":["post-8238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-african-american","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-prejudice","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-stepfamily","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Hate-U-Give.jpg?fit=428%2C648&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8258,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions\/8258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n**kmm<\/p>\n
\nWill her testimony send the white cop to trial? Not likely.
\nCan she keep being two different people, at home and at school? Tension, pressure…<\/p>\n