The young adult novel "The Hate U Give" tells the story of a teenager whose childhood friend is shot and killed by a police officer. In the book, now a finalist for a National Book Award and ...

We’ve had this book on our list of “most wanted” titles since the inception of Velshi Banned Book Club a year and a half ago. Unsurprisingly, “The Hate U Give” has faced challenges and ...

ONEIDA, Illinois — The ROWVA School Board voted Tuesday, Jan. 18 to indefinitely postpone taking action to either suspend or allow a young-adult novel from being taught in freshman English classes.

The book was “Monster,” by Walter Dean Myers ... Take her 2017 debut, "The Hate U Give," for example. It follows a Black girl named Starr who witnesses the shooting of a young Black ...

My interest in banned books is how I discovered Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give.I have always loved reading stories that I could relate to real life (hence why I am now getting a degree in ...

“The Hate U Give,” by Angie Thomas (Balzer + Bray, 2017) Although marketed as a YA book because the main characters are high schoolers, this is no patronizing, glib view deprecating violence ...

the hate u give was a book that was critically acclaimed. IT ALSO HAD BEEN APPROVED AT ALL LEVELS OF NEW MEXICO PUBLIC EDUCATION. BUT DURING LAST SCHOOL YEAR, TWO STUDENTS IN HER CLASS COMPLAIN TO ...

But “Banned Books: Defending the Right to Read,” which also featured “The Hate U Give” author Angie Thomas, was less focused on defining opponents of access to books than on the writers ...

Angie Thomas, author of “The Hate U Give,” will speak at Kansas State University in Manhattan in April. Her new book, “On the Come Up,” will be released Feb. 5. Anissa Hidouk Courtesy ...