The book The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is a non-fiction book about a 16 year old girl named Starr who has been through a lot.

In the book Starr and her best friend that she hadn’t seen in a while meet each other at a party. They talk and catch up on things they have missed. Then, while Starr’s friend Khalil was taking her home, a police officer stopped them, and before they knew it Khalil was shot dead by the police. Now they are fighting for justice.

The book The Hate U Give is fiction, but talks about real issues like segregation. In the book there is much violence that happened in Garden Heights, which is were Starr and her family live. This book can show people what is happening in the world and what many black children go through. In the book Thomas derives its title from the rapper Tupac Shakur’s philosophy of “THUG LIFE,” which purportedly stands for “The Hate U Give Little Infants F***s  Everybody.” 

In the book Starr goes to a party and when they hear gunshots, Khalil offers to take her home. At one point during their drive home, a white police officer stopped them. Khalil and Starr where both confused to why they had been stopped. Khalil kept asking questions which made the officer impatient, so he told Khalil to step out of the vehicle. Khalil went to the window to make sure Starr was okay and before anyone knew it,  there was a sheet over his body.

This book has really helped me understand more about what goes on in our world. We need to put a stop to all this nonsense and be nice to everyone, even people who don’t share or have the same race as you. We need to leave all that in the past and be a more advanced world without conflict and with happiness.

Angie Thomas really put a message out there in a book and I think it is really helpful. If you don’t want to read a big and large book, I also suggest the movie. It is a really good movie that I really enjoyed, but for my preference I think the book is more detailed and better since it gives a lot of Starr’s perspective and has more scenes that happened that weren’t really included in the movie. The thing that caught my eye to read it was how large it was.  I didn’t really like to read many large books back then, but I decided to put myself to a challenge and now I am challenging myself to read larger books, like for example IT.

You will want to give a chance to The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.  You’ll enjoy it.