AUTHOR: Angie Thomas
GENRE: Realistic Fiction
* 2019-2020 Gateway Award Nominee
Sixteen year-old Starr Carter isn't your ordinary teenager. Born and raised in a poor inner city neighborhood she also attends a fancy prep school in a neighboring well-to-do area of her city for academics. Even though she navigates two separate worlds, attending a fancy prep school does not protect her from the dangers of her life in her everyday neighborhood. Starr becomes the only witness in the shooting of her unarmed friend Kahlil at the hands of a police officer stirring up problems for her at school and in her everyday life on the streets of her neighborhood. Choosing what, and how to describe the events of the night of Kahlil's death will have a big impact on the balance she has between both her family and her friends.
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