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The Hate U Give
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Overview
The Hate U Give is a young adult novel published in 2017 by the American author Angie Thomas. The book’s protagonist is a 16-year-old Black girl who witnesses a white police officer kill her friend. A New York Times bestseller, The Hate U Give won several awards, including the American Library Association’s William C. Morris Award for best debut novel and the Coretta Scott King Award for the best children’s novel by an African American author. The book appeared on the National Book Awards longlist for young adult literature and received a nomination for the Carnegie Medal in 2018. Also in 2018, director George T. Tillman adapted the novel into a critically acclaimed film of the same name.
Content Warning: Both the source text and this guide contain descriptions of racism, police brutality and racial profiling, murder, addiction, drug-dealing, and gang-related violence.
Plot Summary
The narrator of The Hate U Give is 16-year-old Starr Carter. At the outset of the novel, Starr attends a party in her neighborhood, Garden Heights, which is a primarily Black, lower-income area. A few years before, after witnessing the murder of her friend Natasha in a drive-by shooting, Starr enrolled at Williamson Prep, a private school of mainly white, wealthy students.
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