A Debut Novel by Angie Thomas

#1 on the New York Times Bestseller List for YA Hardcovers:
53 weeks & counting

*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE*

POTENTIAL

FRESH KICKS

BASKETBALL

“I’ve taught myself to speak with two different voices and only say certain things around certain people. I’ve mastered it.”

IDENTITY CRISIS

FRIENDSHIP

TEENAGE ANGST

PRIVATE SCHOOL

“Besties before testes.”

CHUCK TAYLORS
& JORDANS

YOUNG LOVE

PROM NIGHT

COMMUNITY

IMPOVERISHED

“I can’t change where I come from or what I’ve been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me?”

CULTURE 

ADDICTION

CRIME

GANG VIOLENCE

TUPAC SHAKUR

“The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody.”

STRAPPED

HOOD RICH 

RIVALRY

SOLE WITNESS

GRIEF

“Goodbyes hurt the most when the other person’s already gone.”

UNARMED

BLAME

PREDJUDICE

INJUSTICE

DISADVANTAGE

FEAR

“Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too.”

TEAR GAS

CONTROL

ACTIVISM

JUSTICE

PROTEST

FIRST AMENDMENT

“What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?”

PROSPERITY

EQUALITY

BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS“I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they’ll show us a side of the world that we might not have known about.”
-Angie Thomas

1. Boston Globe Horn Book Award – 2017
2. National Book Award Nominee for Young People’s Literature – 2017
3. Odyssey Award – 2018
4. William C. Morris Award – 2018
5. Coretta Scott King Honor – 2018
6. Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult – 2018
7. Michael L. Printz Honor – 2018
8. Kirkus Prize Nominee for Young Readers’ Literature – 2017
9. Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction – 2017
10. Goodreads Choice Award for Debut Author – 2017

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