The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
It’s hard to imagine a YA reader today who hasn’t heard of Starr Carter, the teenage protagonist of Angie Thomas’ acclaimed debut novel, The Hate U Give, who tragically witnesses a police officer shoot her best friend Khalil. The book earned starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Horn Book and a string of awards, including the William C. Morris Award. Yet in its first year in print, the book was also challenged for being “pervasively vulgar” and for mentions of drug use.
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