#4 in Young adult
The Hate U Give
- 453
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
- Waterstone's Children's Book Prize
- Het Beste Boek voor Jongeren
- Michael L. Printz Honor
- Het beste in het Nederlands vertaalde jongerenboek
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Our view
“The Hate U Give” draws its force from voice: Starr sounds like a real sixteen-year-old, and the dialogue around her, at home and at school, rings true. The story of a girl who sees a friend shot by police and has to decide how loudly to speak is gripping from the start, and the family scenes, especially those with her father, give it warmth. Its subject is heavy, but the book stays hopeful.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
The Hate U Give is a 2017 young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It is Thomas's debut novel, expanded from a short story she wrote in college in reaction to the police shooting of Oscar Grant. The book is narrated by Starr Carter, a 16-year-old African-American girl from a poor neighborhood who attends an elite private school in a predominantly white, affluent part of the city. Starr becomes entangled in a national news story after she witnesses a white police officer shoot and kill her childhood friend, Khalil. She speaks up about the shooting in increasingly public ways, and social tensions culminate in a riot after a grand jury decides not to indict the police officer for the shooting.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.9 across 1,253 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 90% of the weight and the score stays at 8.8 — the Young adult average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.7 | 136 | 11% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 45 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.9 | 1.1K | 86% |
Frequently asked
What age is The Hate U Give for?
The Hate U Give sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 453 pages — longer than 57% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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