The EFC Readers: July Book Club Selection

Hi, Everyone!

I hope you all are doing well. The EFC Readers, our Facebook reader group, has selected The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas as its July Book Club pick! Here are the details for the book. Please feel free to join The EFC Readers! The discussion will be on July 31.

The Hate U Give
written by Angie Thomas
published by Balzer + Bray, 2017

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About the book – from Goodreads: 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.

But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl’s struggle for justice.

 

 

The EFC Readers is a group where we can share what we are reading and talk about books and book-related topics. It also has a monthly book club. If you would like to join this community of EFC Readers, please click the image above or this link.

 

 

 
 

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** This post first appeared on Every Free Chance Books (everyfreechance.com) on July 9, 2020.