![]() ![]() “They love Jesus but they don’t want people to have rights. “I went to a mostly white, upper-class Christian school in conservative Mississippi,” Thomas said of Belhaven University. The novel, characterized by YA king John Green as a “classic for our times,” centers on Starr Carter, a 16-year-old growing up in a gritty neighborhood and navigating a preppy private high school. People should care more about that number than the number of f-words.” “And last year, more than 900 people were killed by police. ![]() ‘There are 89 f-words in ‘The Hate U Give ’ I know because I counted them,” Thomas told an overflow crowd at the Cleveland Public Library. ![]() It was arguably the young adult sensation of 2017. The consternation began when a middle-school parent complained about profanity and drug use at a party depicted in the book’s opening scene.Īngie Thomas, who wrote that scene, had a few observations about her breakout book, which spent 38 weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list. In January – after a student-led outcry – copies were back in the high schools of Katy, Texas, albeit paired with a parental consent form. In December, a suburban Houston school district yanked copies of the young-adult novel “The Hate U Give” from all 25 of its school libraries. ![]()
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