Help rescue THE HATE U GIVE (book)

[hermetic]

Katy, Texas schools have pulled all copies of Angie Thomas’s best selling YA novel The Hate U Give from shelves. This came after a single complaint from a middle-aged white man who was appalled by reading the first 10 pages of the book and deemed it inappropriate for the students of the school. Rather than follow the process for book removal, as outlined by school policy, the book was unilaterally removed from all school library shelves.

Let's bring it back to Katy. Buy a copy of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give from one of numerous wish lists on Amazon (linked in the article below). Those wish lists are linked to individuals in the Katy area who are going to drop copies of the books into local Little Free Libraries, guerrilla style. This will allow readers to find them all over town and not only can they find them, they get to keep copies of the book. The idea is they’ll spread the word — along with our help, of course — and more copies of the book will land in the hands of more readers there.

Maybe the school can keep the book off their shelves, but they can’t keep the book from the hands of readers who are hungry for it and for whom it will be a life-changing, empowering book.

Let's get lots of copies of THE HATE U GIVE to the readers down in Katy, Texas, where the title was pulled from school district shelves. Here's how: http://stackedbooks.org/2018/01/lets-donate-the-hate-u-give-to-katy-texas-readers-defy-the-books-censorship.html

[japple]

1. Thank you, thank you for posting this! I have relatives in Katy, TX, including some school

teachers. Unfortunately, many of them are r-wingers and probably agree with the nitwit who is calling for the removal of this book. I will be going to TX in late March, so I might get a bit of this story first hand. It will be a pleasure for me to donate copies of this book to those who need it most and might even be my distant relatives!