Books like The Hate U Give
12 books with a reading profile close to The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Angie Thomas. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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Ghost Boys
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Jerome is a twelve-year-old boy killed by a police officer who thinks his toy gun is real.
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2
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo Kelby lives on a struggling Oklahoma wheat farm during the Great Depression.
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The Book of Unknown Americans
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Two families move into the same apartment building in Delaware: the Riveras, who came from Mexico, and the Toros from Panama.
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The Weird Sisters
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The three Andreas sisters, daughters of a Shakespeare professor who speaks mostly in quotations, come home to their small Ohio college town because their mother has breast cancer.
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Inside Out & Back Again
by Thanhhà Lại
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Ten-year-old Hà lives in Saigon during the Vietnam War, where she stays close to her mother and three brothers while mourning a father missing in action.
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Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, accessible
Ruth Jefferson, a labor and delivery nurse with twenty years of experience, begins her shift at a Connecticut hospital only to be reassigned because a patient’s parents are white supremacists who demand that no African…
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Three Days in June
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set against the humid backdrop of Baltimore, seventeen-year-old June navigates seventy-two hours of familial tension and burgeoning romantic attraction.
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Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
Also thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
The story follows two women whose lives intersect on a Nigerian beach during a violent encounter involving an oil company’s mercenaries.
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9
The Invention of Wings
narrative, accessible
The story follows Sarah Grimké, the daughter of a wealthy Charleston judge, and Hetty "Handful," the enslaved girl gifted to Sarah on her eleventh birthday.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Nuri is a beekeeper who tends to hives in the Syrian city of Aleppo alongside his wife, Afra, an artist who loses her sight after a bomb kills their young son.
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Elsewhere
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Fifteen-year-old Liz Hall dies in a hit-and-run accident and wakes up on a ship heading to Elsewhere, a land where the dead age backward toward infancy.
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Liar & Spy
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Seventh-grader Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment building after his father loses his job and his mother begins working double shifts at the hospital.
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