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“once you've seen how broken someone is it's like seeing them naked—you can't look at them the same anymore.“

This was a RF that just leaves you speechless. I highly recommend this book to all ages and will definitely incorporate this as a LC or even RA in my future upper-level classrooms. The UDL I would align it to is 3.3 with processing information, and the ESOL strategy is 1 to encourage the questioning. #UCFLAE3414F19

#yallfest has kicked off!! Any insta friends feel free to find me (@TheBookKeepersPage on IG) to see more of my stories throughout my weekend if you wanna join along my YA adventures! I‘ll post some updates on here too but don‘t want to flood your feeds to much....unless requested 😈 📚 📚 📚 here‘s some highlights from today! Meeting Nic Stone (planned) & Angie Thomas (not planned)! Squeal!

I have mixed feelings about some elements of the ending, but that's probably to be expected. Deffo got goosebumps during the epilogue. A couple of my coworkers recommended the movie to me after I told them I was listening to the book, so it looks like that's on the to-do list now.

#BlackLivesMatter

Sad that these beautiful fall colours will be leaving us now that we have our first snow squall warning of the season.

This book though. Wow. Just wow.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I‘m super late to the game, but this definitely lives up to the hype! I recently read On the Come Up, too, and appreciate Thomas‘s creation of Garden Heights. I hope she continues to set stories there; continues to open our eyes. Gaining perspective is vital.

Venturing away from my nonfiction and superheroes to listen to the only YA fiction book I've had on my to-read list in ages. Bahni Turpin is an audiobook role model, and her performance is turning a narrative I already anticipated would be emotional into a truly heartrending performance.

Once you‘ve seen how broken someone is it‘s like seeing them naked—you can‘t look at them the same anymore.

Teaching option 2

This book made me so angry. Angry because those things are happening. Not only in America, but also around here. There are so many stereotypes in our heads and sometimes it's enormously hard to overcome them and that's why books like this need to be read. Here and now. So everybody go and read this book!

This book was amazing! One of my all time favourite reads to date!! I was recommended this book from my boss and she leant me her copy; thus beginning my wonderful journey that is "The Hate U Give". You really need to add this to your tbr pile and actually make time to read it! This book really opened my eyes and educated me on what life as a minority would be like. Highly recommend this book!! ?????

I've accepted the 7 day challenge to post a picture of one book per day that I've enjoyed. It can be any genre. Show me one of your's. (No discriptions or explanations. Just the picture)

Day 4) #ThugLife

I read this for Banned Books Week. Although fiction it gave me new perspective in the Black Lives Matter movement.
One reason for banning, portraying the police unfairly. Sounds to me like someone who hasn‘t read it. It shows the good & bad in our justice department, the good & bad in gangs, the good & bad in people of many colors.
My favorite is that a student in TX got 4,000 petition signatures to get it in their school library.✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼✊🏻✊🏽

Dont often read YA, but have heard nothing but good things about this book... read the opening in the pancake house this week - very hard-hitting and powerful opening.

This RF novel written by Angie Thomas has won the National Book and Coretta Scott King awards. Starr sees the uneasy balance between the poor, mostly black neighbourhoods and the rich, mostly white neighbourhoods come to life. When Starr watches her friend, a black boy, get shot and killed by a cop, she has to find her voice, not be scared, and stand up for what's right. This book represents the Black Lives Matter movement. #UCFLAE3414F19

The truth of the book shouldn‘t be a surprise to anyone living in the US today, but told through the voice of a sixteen year old girl, it is almost unbearable. Beautifully woven, heartbreakingly real. A must read.

The Hate You Give is about a teenage girl named, Starr Carter. Starr is stuck attending a school in a rich community and living in a home in a poor neighbor. Going home from Starr and her best friend Kahlil got stop by a white cop and the cop short Kahlil. After the shooting and tragic loss of her best friend, Starr became an activist for her culture because what happened to Kahlil happened to many other black citizens in her community.

I liked this book but love what it was written for if that makes since we need justice for all races and all disabilities

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is a Coretta Scott King honor book and New York Times Bestseller. This book is about a girl named Start who watched her best friend get shot by a white police officer. Starr doesn't know what to do but knows she has to do something so she speaks out about what happen and trying to get justice for her best friend. This book is a RF and would be a good book for LC or IR. #UCFLAE3414F19

Ready to do a reading from this book for our college's Banned Books Week event. #CollinReadsBannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek2019

Happy #BannedBooksWeek! Have you read any of these or have any on your TBR? Article: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/us/banned-books-week-2019-trnd/index.html?no-st=1...

#TomKittleston and I are having a lazy Sunday. #CatsOfLitsy #LittenKitten #BannedBooksWeek

Happy Banned Books Week!
https://bannedbooksweek.org/about/

Anyone reading any banned books this week?

#bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek

#7days7covers #CoverCrush #day4

Seven covers in seven days with no explanation and tag someone new every day. What a cool idea!

Tagging @cherinium 👩🏼👩🏻‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰👩🏻👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿

Day 6 #7books7covers #covercrush

Anyone who fancies joining in!

wow, just wow 😯 ...I'm amazed at how Angie Thomas managed to squeeze in so much nuanced commentary on so many issues like race, class, police brutality, drug dealing and even smaller problems like toxic friendships. Starr is so interesting and multifaceted as a character and her parents are pretty awesome. really hope this becomes a classic amongst ya books in the years to come.

#ya #contemporary

current #nightstand read 🛏️ definitely not a 'relaxing' book for pre-bedtime unwinding but it's compelling and excellent.

A YA novel that gives a great, thought provoking look into an ongoing issue in the US. Starr witnesses her best friend murdered at the hands of a police officer. She has to learn to speak up for herself, honor her friend and trust those around her again. The dialogue read easily and the relationships were believable. I loved the book and would recommend it.

Any #OhioLittens #CincyLittens #CincinnatiLittens planning on attending this #authorsigning tomorrow? I‘ll be there.

Amazing story. A Must Read. The story somewhere deep inside stirs you and asks that really important question - Are you really living a life to please others, hiding who you really are?
The characters are built very nicely and with time they engrave into you as you read.
A very fragile topic discussed in a really very modest way. Looking forward to read more of Angie Thomas!

And that's my Sleeping Beauty while I read :)

One True Pair! These new Internet abbreviations make me feel so old! That's one big benefit of reading,you keep learning!

Must Watch Speech by Malcom X!

https://youtu.be/6_uYWDyYNUg

On It!

I love this book so much! It gives such a good perspective of modern day from the point of view of the people dealing with this type of stuff in america today.

Tough to read at times and tougher to put down. Important and timely but also full of heart. A must read for young people, this should be in every high school library if it isn't already.

"Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong." - The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

Picture Credit: Goodreads.com

I can see why there was so much buzz around this book when it came out and it‘s one I‘d definitely recommend to teenagers if I was still teaching... but I found the language and writing style just too YA for me. Still a pick but not as good as I was expecting.

Been reading a lot of hard things lately. Good, but hard. Maybe a comfort read next?

"Funerals aren't for the dead, they're for the living." Reminded me of the Fault in our Stars.... anyone else?

I‘m finding this a little bit too YA for my tastes but I can see why it‘s so popular.

"Holy shit. Who the fuck complains about going to Harry Potter world? Or butter beer? Or wands?"

This book should be required reading in our schools. It is an important perspective that every person should read. #audiobook #45of65

#MyTop5 for @Kimberlone ♥️♥️♥️

Never thought I‘d be able to say this, but I‘m re-reading The Hate U Give FOR WORK 🙌 This year it‘s a faculty #summerreading option (thanks to me suggesting it) — hopefully it‘ll be for students someday 🤞🙏
#babysteps #weneeddiversebooks #teachersoflitsy #ya

Angie Thomas is lovely, complimented my radish earrings, and book signing #2 has been successfully completed!

“Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.
He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I'll remember how he died.
Fairy tale? No. But I'm not giving up on a better ending.”

#Innocence #LetsTravelAugust
#IPredictaRiot #AyUpAugust