TY - BOOK AU - Thomas, Angela AU - Stenberg, Amandla TI - The Hate u give SN - 9780062498540 AV - FIC T465 2022 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Balzer + Bray KW - Race relations KW - Fiction KW - Witnesses KW - Police-community relations N2 - Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr ER -