The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

454 Pages, Published In 2017

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Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and author’s own childhood experiences, the 2017 YA novel exposes police brutality and systemic racism through the eyes of a 16-year-old African American girl, who lives in a impoverished black neighborhood and studies in an affluent white school. The girl witnesses the fatal shooting of her best friend, an unarmed black boy, at the hands of a white police officer. Sounds too real? Read this powerful novel!