![]() ![]() What struck me the most about this story – which again is aimed at teenagers – was how well the author puts us in Starr’s head. She needs to decide what to tell and to whom because her words can have dire consequences for her family and her community. When she witnesses her unarmed childhood best friend get killed by a policeman her entire life changes. She switches her personality so that she can fit in wherever she is, never truly being her whole self. She attends a prestigious prep school where she is one of 2 black children in her grade but she lives in the poor neighborhood 40 minutes down the road. Starr is straddling a line between two worlds. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is fantastic and incredibly relevant young adult novel that tackles the Black Lives Matter movement. **This post contains affiliate links which will result in a small commission should you make a purchase. I feel that my social consciousness has been elevated everytime I read a book with tough subject matter. I noticed that this year, Jackie and I have both tackled books that have some hard-hitting material. But I have been feeling more and more recently that I need to wake the hell up and take a good look at the world outside my bubble. ![]() I’ve talked about my love for Fluff Reads before and there is a time and place for a book that just makes you smile. Call it hormonal, call it denial - I referred to it as self-preservation. When I first had my children, I had a hard time looking at the state of the world around me. ![]()
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