“Thomas has given a voice to her generation.” Stylist “Passionate and uncompromising.” Observer “The Hate U Give says more about the contemporary Black experience in America than any book I have read for years.” Guardian Winner of the Amnesty CILIP Honour for the Carnegie MedalĪ major motion picture from Fox starring Amandla Stenberg Winner of Children’s Book of the Year at The British Book Awards Winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Award But when King Lord blood runs through your veins, you don’t get to just walk away. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. Suddenly it’s not so easy to deal drugs and finish school with a baby dependent on him for everything. Life’s not perfect, but he’s got everything under control. With his King Lord dad in prison and his mom working two jobs, seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter helps the only way he knows how: slinging drugs. From international phenomenon Angie Thomas comes a hard-hitting return to Garden Heights with the story of Maverick Carter, Starr’s father, set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give.
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