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<p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px">Our book for August is "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas.</p>
<p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px">From Amazon:<br>
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best
friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.</p>
<p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px">Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try
to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.</p>
<p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px">“Though Thomas’s story is heartbreakingly topical, its greatest strength is in its authentic depiction of a teenage girl, her loving family, and her attempts to reconcile what she knows to be true about their lives
with the way those lives are depicted – and completely undervalued – by society at large.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)</p>
<p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px">Snacks will be served.</p>
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