Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give was taken off year 10 reading list at Budmouth Academy after parent complained
A bestselling black American author has condemned a Dorset school’s decision to drop her critically acclaimed novel from a reading list.
Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give was removed from Budmouth Academy’s year 10 reading list after a complaint from a parent.
The novel is about a 16-year-old black American girl who lives in a poor and predominantly black neighbourhood and attends a wealthy, mostly white school. She witnesses a fatal police shooting of an unarmed black friend.
James Farquharson, a former Conservative councillor, who has two daughters at the school in Weymouth,complained about the explicit language and sexual references in the book.
