Reviews by Tag: police brutality

Teen Review
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 21, 2025

The Hate U Give is a novel that illustrates racial injustice in our world. Through the eyes of Starr Carter, we see what she experiences as a young black girl in her community. Specifically, when she witnesses a police officer shoot her best friend Khalil. She did everything in her power to gain justice for Khalil. Throughout the book, she faces many challenges as she tries to avenge Khalil and cause change in her community.

Teen Review
The Hate U Give book cover

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 13, 2025

The Hate U Give is a must read for fans of realistic fiction, and/or socially conscious books. The book is about Starr, a 16-year-old African American teenager who witnesses the shooting of her friend Khalil by a police officer. The rest of the book follows the struggles Starr faces while trying to seek justice for her friend and the impact it has on her and those around her. It has won awards such as Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best (2018), and Audie Award for Young Adult (2018).

Teen Review
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely

All American Boys

By Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Sanay Mishra
Jan 21, 2025

All American Boys - One night. One incident. Two teenage lives forever changed. Rashad, a black teenager, gets brutally beaten by a cop for a crime he never committed. Quinn, a white teenager, watched it all unfold. Now, they’re both stuck in a mental fight. Rashad seeks justice, while Quinn battles his morals and emotions. With the world watching, they must make decisions that no teenager should have to make. Will they stand up, or just be another person lost in the crowd?

Teen Review
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mia M
Nov 15, 2024

The Hate U Give is a realistic fiction young adult novel that follows the young woman, Starr, through a difficult time of hate and racism in her life. Her childhood friend, Khalil, is shot by a police officer even though Khalil did nothing wrong. As Starr goes through grieving, her neighborhood falls into chaos as the news keeps portraying Khalil as the enemy.

Teen Review
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Aug 12, 2024

The Hate U Give is an amazing book that follows the story of Starr, an African American girl living in Garden Heights. Starr switches between her predominantly Black neighborhood and her predominantly white school. After witnessing her childhood friend Khalil get shot by a police officer, Starr decides to speak up against racism. Despite facing many challenges and intimidation, she eventually testifies and helps bring the perpetrator to justice. The book touches on themes of racism and the power of speaking out.

Teen Review
The Hate U Give book cover

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Bella P.
May 24, 2024

Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give is a Young Adult Fiction novel that recounts the experiences of Starr Carter, a teenage Black girl who attends a rich, white prep school—a stark contrast to her poorer, predominantly Black neighborhood. Starr has an intense desire to explore how to define her identity as a result of her different experiences with her two very different worlds. Her desire is primarily fueled by the death of her childhood best friend, Khalil, who was killed by a police officer.

Teen Review
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
May 13, 2024

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is a powerful novel following a black teenage girl named Starr Carter who is forced to see two of her childhood best friends brutally murdered at a young age. Starr struggles to fight against the discrimination and police brutality her entire community has faced--she is put in a situation where she must stand up for what is right. She has the choice to either stay quiet to protect herself, or speak up for those she has lost.

Teen Review
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
VP
Aug 3, 2022

When Starr Carter’s childhood friend is brutally shot by a police officer – which was racially

provoked – her entire world turns upside down. This wasn’t the first time either. Starr slowly

starts to realize the injustice that has been engraved in the black community for years and

decades. The affluent school she and her brothers attend is far from Garden Heights (the perilous,

crime-driven neighborhood she lives in), and there, everybody is white; in fact, Starr describes

Teen Review
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Aubrie C.
Mar 22, 2022

The Hate You Give, by Angie Thomas, is a fiction novel about a sixteen-year-old Starr and how she becomes the only witness to the fatal shooting of her friend Khalil by the hands of the police. Throughout the story, Starr is looking for ways she can bring justice to Khalil but she does not want the public to know that she was the witness. Starr talks to the police, district attorney, and grand jury anonymously hoping that will be enough to bring justice to Khalil.

Teen Review
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Grace Textor
Mar 8, 2022

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Fiction) is a story the world knows all too well. Starr is an African-American teenage girl from Garden Heights, what most would call the hood, yet she goes to Williamson High School, an expensive private school with not a lot of minorities. Starr and her brothers were put in Williamson because when Starr was a child she saw her friend die in a drive by, which made her parents question whether Garden Heights was safe for their children.

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