I'm writing this slow so beware. Also the book has ALMOST 500 pages. So it's pretty long, give me time and patients. ••••••••••••••••••••○•••••••••••••••••••• Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy Suburban prep school she attends the uneasy balance between these worlds is shaddered when Starr Witnesses a fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer, Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, Khalil's death is a national headline. Some are calling him a Thug maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Starr's best friend at school suggest he may have had it coming. When it becomes clear the police have little interests investigating the incidents protest take to the streets and Starr's neighborhood becomes a war zone. what everyone wants to know is what really went down that night and the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what starr does or does not say can could destroy her community it could also endanger her life. Angie Thomas's searing doubt about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence,heart and unflinching honesty