![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the school finds out Pete is their father, it is Ashley who unwittingly earns the wrath from Angel and the basketball team. Her brother, Zach, lashes out at Pete for shooting his friend. Her sister, Angel, is best friends with Ashley, a white female member of the basketball team who figures out the police officer is none other than her own father, Pete. She knows Tajon did not have a gun, contrary to the police officer’s claims. The shooting is witnessed by Razia, a longtime school friend of Tajon. Their transaction is interrupted by a white police officer, and Tajon is shot twice while running from the officer. He is threatened at gunpoint by the neighborhood drug dealer into handing over his weed supply without receiving money from him. Gr 8 Up–Tajon Williams, a black teen, sells weed as a means of getting his mother and sister away from his abusive and alcoholic father. Below are a few recently reviewed YA titles that explore the lives of Black teens, police brutality, and systemic racism.īEACON HOUSE TEEN WRITERS. ![]() What do you read after completing the most lauded and talked about YA book of 2017? Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give by has already garnered multiple accolades- Boston Globe Horn Book Fiction winner, National Book Award long list, SLJ Best Book, and Morris finalist, among others. ![]()
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