Book: The Hate U Give
Finally, a young adult novel not set in a dystopian future and is instead taking place in our dystopian present. Centre Stage of our Story is 16-year-old Starr, a black girl who lives in the hood in California while going to white school. Starr feels torn apart as she feels forced to divide herself in two as she interacts differently with her friends in one world or the other. Summery: Starr is at a party in her dangerous neighbourhood with her "friend", Kenya. When they get separated, she runs into a friend she hasn't seen in many months, Kalil. After talking a bit about shoes and basketball a gun is fired and suddenly everyone is running. Kalil grabs Starr and takes her to his car and begins the drive home. While in the car they are pulled over by a police officer (Badgenumber: 115), for illegitimate reasons which becomes evident when the officer looks for drugs on Kalil and finds none. The officer returns to his police car ordering Kalil to stay put but Kalil wants t...