"The Hate U Give, based on Angie Thomas' YA bestseller, premiered in movie theaters earlier this month, lauded by critics as "the teen movie everybody needs to watch." An interweaving web of the causes and effects of hate, The Hate U Give follows Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg), who must constantly balance her life in her low-income, predominantly black neighborhood and her mostly white high school. But her childhood friend Khalil is fatally shot by a white police officer who mistakes his hairbrush for a gun, and Starr must find a new way to navigate the two worlds she finds herself trapped between."
"After seeing the movie, you might have rushed to read the book, or others like it. Here are 12 books to read if you loved The Hate U Give."
