Category:
African-American Interest
Regular worth:
$12.99
Deal worth:
$2.99
Deal begins:
December 26, 2022
Deal ends:
December 26, 2022
8 starred critiques · Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best · William C. Morris Award Winner · National Book Award Longlist · Printz Honor Book · Coretta Scott King Honor Book · #1 New York Times Bestseller!
“Absolutely riveting!” —Jason Reynolds
“Stunning.” —John Green
“This story is necessary. This story is important.” —Kirkus (starred overview)
“Heartbreakingly topical.” —Publishers Weekly (starred overview)
“A marvel of verisimilitude.” —Booklist (starred overview)
“A powerful, in-your-face novel.” —Horn Book (starred overview)
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter strikes between two worlds: the poor neighborhood the place she lives and the flamboyant suburban prep faculty she attends. The uneasy stability between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the deadly capturing of her childhood finest good friend Khalil by the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
Soon afterward, his loss of life is a nationwide headline. Some are calling him a thug, perhaps even a drug seller and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s identify. Some cops and the native drug lord attempt to intimidate Starr and her household. What everybody needs to know is: what actually went down that night time? And the one individual alive who can reply that’s Starr.
But what Starr does—or doesn’t—say may upend her neighborhood. It may additionally endanger her life.
Want extra of Garden Heights? Catch Maverick and Seven’s story in Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas’s highly effective prequel to The Hate U Give.
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