The Hate U Give Collector's Edition: A Printz Honor Winner

The Hate U Give By Angie Thomas 5⭐️ Wow! This story is one I think really needs talked about. It was recommended in one of the book groups I am in for Banned Book Week. I’m so glad I picked this to be my Banned Book Read! This book hooked me immediately. I thought I’d struggle relating with this book and maybe in some ways I did a little. However, I think that struggle is exactly what I needed to really grasp the importance of the book. There were so many OMG scenes that pulled tears from my eyes and put my hand to my heart. Scenes that had me holding my breath. Every single one of those scenes impacted me in a very deep and profound way. This book needs to be read and talked about! This book is about a black girl living in a ghetto - a real ghetto - one that most of us don’t really see. At least for me, very different than what our town considers the ghetto or slums or the bricks. This girl loses two of her best friends. One from gang violence at the age of 10 and the other from police brutality at the age of 16. 16 year old Starr is who is sharing her story. Not just her experiences but how she finds her voice, her real voice. Through her story we meet her family and friends and get a real taste of her life. The flow of this book is so good that I often forgot I was reading. So many pages were turned before I’d check a clock. The author does a really amazing job with this book. Banned or not in places - this book should be read. Read it with your teenagers or even just for yourself. You’ll walk away a different person when you’ve finished. In my opinion, books that change you, are the best ones to read!

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas was a very good book to read. I recommend this book to someone older, like a teen, and this book is not directed towards a younger audience. This book takes place in Starr’s head, a new perspective of the situation. Starr is a high school student who has learned to change herself at school and home. She went to a party one night, and there were gunshots. Then she left and got pulled over by a police officer, and her friend Khalil, who she was with, got shot by the police and unfortunately died. This is hard on Starr because he was a very good old friend and just got to catch up at the party. This also is not the first time she has seen one of her friends get shot and killed. Starr is facing the decision to tell the media about the whole situation, which is hard for her. Reading this book has brought awareness to me about what is going on in the world. It also shows how people are going through things that no one knows about. This is because, in the book, she does not tell anyone that she was with Khalil when he was shot. This book is a very good book to read to older kids such as teenagers because it is something that is happening all the time and needs to be brought to the surface more to raise awareness. It is also showing to not judge people for who they are, what they look like, and how they act. Starr has two personalities in this book. First is her Williamson Prep personality. At her school, she is more aware of what she is doing and saying and is more reserved and self-conscious. There is also Garden Heights Starr. Starr is more outgoing, speaks her mind, uses slang, and uses familiar language. The two different Starrs represent how people can change their mood, opinions, and overall personality depending on who they are with and what they are doing. This also brought awareness to me because I never really thought about people acting like this and realized that people might have different lives outside of what everyone else sees. This book uses a lot of symbolism; an example is the protesting because it symbolizes justice and standing up for what is right and what you believe. There is also first-person narration because the story is being told from Starr’s perspective. In conclusion, I would recommend this book to an older audience. I think it is a very powerful book, and I enjoyed reading it from start to finish. I believe the ending is powerful because it shows that not everything goes as planned, and you can not always get peace for what you believe.

This is a very well-written and emotional account of a teenage girl growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood who witnesses her childhood friend fall victim to police brutality. This, along with the pull she feels between two facets of her personality (she attends a private school with mostly white students where she feels the need to hide parts of herself) that, to her, seem at odds are the main themes of the book. As a white woman, the most powerful aspect to me is how Starr, being a POC, feels her race infiltrates every aspect of her life. It is never something that she is not acutely aware of. She feels she needs to speak a certain way, act a certain way, like, or not like certain things with her two different sets of friends. The luxury that non-POC have to not even have to think about the color of their skin is one of many ways white privilege is proved within this book. The idea that this book is “biased” and “doesn’t show both sides” is kind of laughable to me. Of course it doesn’t show both sides. It is from the point of view of a 16 year old POC who is still learning who she is and can only learn based on her multiple experiences with police - which are ALL negative. If you think that this type of life experience is purely fictional and not a reality for MANY, MANY POC, you should really think again. It is not this author’s job to placate the reader and show that there are some really neat police officers out there for the sake of “balance”. There is no balance, fairness or justice for SO many people - and that’s pretty much the point of this whole book. Overall, an easy, yet powerful read.

Story, characters an setting are all perfect. The writing is beautiful an relatable, if you’re black or even latinx and have ever had to develop a second personality or even a different voice around white peers or coworkers then Starr’s story will resonate with you. It’s a beautifully written story about a young girl living between two separate worlds an how a simple traffic stop goes tragically wrong ending her childhood friends life and bringing those worlds crashing together. As far as the few negative reviews I’ve seen saying it’s biased or “anti cop” the theme an message clearly went over those people’s head. It’s not anti cop, Starr’s uncle in the book is a cop ffs, it’s literally about her being thrust into a tragedy she never asked for an how the people around her start to change up, I would HIGHLY recommend this book and honestly the movie does a good job with the story too while I’m at it 10/10 stars

The cover doesn’t do it justice, that’s the only thing I don’t love about it, but it’s not a reflection of the author. The cover does make the book look like it’s for a kid, it wouldn’t make me want to buy it because of that. Don’t judge a book really applies here because I’d be missing out if I went by the cover. I wish it had a more realistic/painterly portrait on it to show more emotion & strength though. That aside, it’s a really beautifully sad, but encouraging book. The first person perspective works well, it sets a tone & makes you feel like you’re in peoples lives. This book isn’t meant to shove anything in your face or to start huge movements, it’s just for people to see that there are still some issues around us, even if they don’t directly affect some of us. I hope people can learn from this. Maybe it’ll open your mind up to how someone else may feel & how best to understand another.

So many others have said this far more eloquently than I can even attempt to but this was a stunning debut! I listened to it in two sittings - the narrator, Bahni Turpin, did an incredible reading. If you can listen on audio, I highly recommend it. I didn't want to smudge up my copy but ended up reading into the night after my battery on my Kindle died. I knew going in this would be a very emotional read and I would be wrecked. I cried more than a few times but I also laughed far more than I expected. I loved this family!! As a parent, I identified with Lisa, Starr's mother, and her desire to protect her family, but Big Mav was such a presence and his scenes with Starr! I have to get the movie now as well. I didn't want to put it down, picked it up immediately, loved this entire community of charactets. It deserves all of the awards it has received. It's a beautiful, hard-hitting debut and I will definitely be reading more from this author.

I arrived late to the party—The Hate U Give was published a couple of years ago, made a tremendous splash, and has been hailed as one of the greatest YA novels of the past twenty years. It’s garnered praise from such YA icons as John Greene, Jason Reynolds, and Becky Albertalli, and it’s won a truckload of awards. In case you’ve been asleep since 2017, here’s the plot—high school student Starr Carter witnesses a policeman shoot and kill her friend Khalil in cold blood. Together with her friends and her loving, supportive family, she struggles to find her voice and denounce this brazen act of police murder. In the process, she grows into a novice activist and learns first-hand the brutal reality of racial and socioeconomic injustice. The novel is undeniably powerful. Angie Thomas writes with an authentic voice, and the plot addresses urgent, contemporary issues; she refuses to shy away from the ugly realities that many African American teenagers and their families confront every day, from veiled, microaggressive threats to the outright, unjustifiable violence on persons of color that cops perpetrate with seeming impunity. Her depiction is not, however, biased. Starr’s uncle is a police officer, Khalil was a drug dealer, Starr is dating a white classmate and attends a mostly white suburban high school rather far from her ‘hood. But these facts are not simple in their signification. They complicate easy dichotomies. They make Starr’s life complex and messy. Ambiguity, uncertainty, and—ultimately—fear permeate the plot. As powerful and as effective as the narrative is, and as popular and noteworthy as the novel itself has been, I’m somewhat skeptical of its staying power. It is a novel very much “of its time”—and time will tell whether the themes it addresses and the truths it tells will endure. One hopes that they won’t—that racial and socioeconomic injustice will somehow fade away as humanity seeks to evolve into its better self and that police injustice against persons of color will become a relic of historical shame, a deplorable legacy of the USA’s greatest historical shame. But that’s unlikely to happen anytime soon, so The Hate U Give will, sadly, continue to resonate.

I had been eyeing this book for months. I had really heard nothing about it but what was written on the back but that was enough to peak my interest and then i saw the first movie trailer and that made me interested enough to actually buy it. I am not disappointed. The book it's self is amazing and heart wrenching. I wasn't even a third of the way through when i first ran into my roommates room crying. If you are looking for a book thats relevant to todays climate and pulls at your heart strings look no further. Its real and raw and i loved every moment. The things that were added with the collector Edition is also really great. It was amazing to see the pieces of art included and the map of the neighborhood was a good addition. 10/10 would buy again

What I like about this product is the material. Grandson is rather please with it.

Love it!!! I bought this book recommended by a bookish on Instagram and I can only say it's been a great decision. The story is very touching and educational. It arrived on time and in perfect conditions. The cover is just amazing! I really appreciated that it was sent on a box instead of an envelope. ♡

the only problem is that it arrived a bit damaged :(

O tema é muito interessante e atual. Ainda nao terminei a leitura... Mas me mostrou um lado da vida que realmente foi bom conhecer.

The book was exactly what I expected.