Winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize ? Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best ? National Book Award Longlist ? British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year ? Teen Vogue Best YA Book of the Year.
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed.