“The Hate U Give”is a book of empowerment. Starr Carter is an amazing child, friend, sister and student. She struggles between the two worlds of her high class suburban prep school and her poor uneasy black neighbor hood. She doesn’t know how to mesh her two lives together. Drama is the definition of this girls life her dad was in jail for some of her child hood he missed a lot of first’s in her life but she has learned to deal with it. But the worst thing  is that her childhood friend got shot right in front of her and it was for nothing. She was the wittiness and with that comes lots of trouble; she struggles keeping her mouth shut and not telling everyone what she saw and but she fears if she does not keep her mouth shut her safety will be jeopardized.   Eventually she does what is right and speaks up about the cop who shot her friend. She replays   the incident in her head all the time but soon she learns to deal with it all. The school librarian recommended this book to me and said “it’s great for teens, lots of people have been reading it and that they were going to make a movie based on the book soon.” She even showed me her stop motion clip of the book on Twitter. Trust me this book is AMAZING you should go read it.