The Hate You Give / THUG by Angie Thomas

Starr had been leaving a party with Khalil her sixteen year old friend when a white police man pulls them over and shoots Khalil dead. But she had also seen her fellow friend get shot when she was even younger in a drive by.

Garden heights is the block they live in and Starr's family live with brickz a pitbull for protection. Her dad drug dealed and landed himself in prison when she was little. Since getting out he has owned the family shop which within the book, becomes part of a justice protest/riot over Khalil's unlawful murder and thus becomes engulfed in flames while Starr and her friends as well as her white boyfriend, Chris, are trapped inside.

Tupac is a running theme within the book for the whole black/white culture clash displayed throughout in the book, using his lyrics and title of the book too. It hits on a touchy but unfortunately true matter within how such issues should be handled and I commend Angie for an intricately detailed account of hate crime at its worst.