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Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018
Winner of the Children's Book of the Year 2018 at the British Book Awards

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping young-adult novel about one girl's struggle for justice.

Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed.

©2017 Angela Thomas (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers Coming of Age Crime Difficult Situations Family & Relationships Literature & Fiction Multicultural Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Racism & Discrimination Discrimination Heartfelt Tear-jerking Fiction

Critic reviews

"Angie Thomas has written a stunning, brilliant, gut-wrenching novel that will be remembered as a classic of our time." (John Green)

"The narration here brings this powerful YA novel, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, vividly to life." (Lancashire Post)
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As a white, middle aged male, I know nothing of the world Angie Thomas writes about and so I 'enjoyed' the story more for the world that opened up to me rather than the core story line. It brilliantly highlights inequality and the inherent racism that exists in the US - knowing that it exists and is growing elsewhere. Similar to Orangeboy (London setting). Both have weaker endings, but it's the journey with the characters that is so much more important.

Well written glance into life in black America

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well written and well read we need more audio narrators like Bahni Turpin to bring audio books to life

brilliant

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This book brings you into the world of Garden Heights and breaks down the reality of growing up in that world while trying to find your place in the greater world. It deals with control and hopelessness, of losses and triumphs, of what it means to be a young, black woman in a world where so many people judge you by how you look not by who you are.
I can never know the experience of someone like Star, but I can listen and learn and try to understand. Everyone should be required to read books like this to humanise the "thugs" they see on the news.

Heartbreaking devastating, joyous.

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Great book, very thought provoking and honest , I cannot wait for my granddaughters to be old enough to read this book

Excellent

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One of the best audiobooks I've heard, and a stunning story. Believe the hype, Angie Thomas truly realises a cast of characters who explore every nuance of their struggle and you will be right there along with them.

stunning story excellently narrated

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