![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Starr’s mother would like to move across town to the middle class more diverse neighborhood where Starr and her siblings attend a (predominately white) private school and where the family attends a “diverse” church “(she nicknames it “the diverse church). Starr’s parents can afford to move out of the poorer neighborhood, but her dad, a former gang member and convict, believes it’s important to stay in the neighborhood to help solve the problems there and to be a role model and support for the young African-American males who desire to leave the gang life and pursue better options. Our sixteen-year-old main character, Starr, lives in a poor inner-city neighborhood and her mother drives her to an upper-middle-class private school miles across town for her education. Genre/categories: YA fiction, racism, prejudice, social and family issues Summary: ***This post contains Amazon affiliate links. All books reviewed and recommended in this post focus on the theme of diversity, especially from the African-American perspective. Does reading from a different point of view appeal to you? Do you wish you could include more diversity in your reading life? Would reading fiction that mirrors what you sometimes see on the nightly news interest you? If you answered yes to any of these questions, I urge you to consider reading The Hate U Give. Today I’m offering a challenge for some of us to read outside our comfort zones. The Hate U Give (THUG) and Other Diverse Reads ![]()
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