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Chapter 24.Starr is scared because she has to talk to the polices. Starr goes back to school from spring break and talks to Maya. Chris talks to Starr about the situation that happened between them. All Starr could think of was Chris and how he was trying to have sex with her but she didn’t want to. Starr cries and Hilary and Maya think that’s Chris made her cry but it was about Khalil
Chapter 25.Starr stays at her unlce Carlos's house because it ins't safe at Garden Heights. On her way back home she sees protesters and she gets scared when its time to pass the police. Maverick asks Starr to stay with her that and she agrees because he says he'll give her ice cream. Starr gets in the car with her dad and laughs at him because hes listening to Tupac. Maverick tells Starr about how people become drug dealers because they need money.
Chapter 26.The next morning, April Oprah calls  to apologize for putting Starr  in a dangerous situation, but also says she thinks Starr has a future in activism. Starr looks at the poster of Tupac on her wall, which was the first item she put up in her new bedroom because it felt like “bringing Khalil” with her. She says that all the rioting last night was because people were angry, and “it fucked all of us.” She decides it is time to “un-fuck” everybody.

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Chapter 22.Starr is walking into the police station and sees her uncle Carlos. Uncle Carlos tells Starr what she has to do. Lisa goes in the room with Starr so she doesn’t feel alone. As she’s talking in the interview she gets really nervous but notices that her voice changes to “ghetto” most of the times. They keep asking Starr questions and she thinks to herself on how they keep asking if Khalil was a drug dealer and they aren’t even paying attention to the fact that the police office killed him. Starr and her mom leave the interview because they’re making it seem like Khalil’s death was Ok because he was a “drug dealer”
Chapter 23.while at school star was really worried about Khalil's funeral. Her friend makes a joke about fried chicken and star takes it as a racist joke, then Haley starts talking about Khalil and ask start if she knew him and star replied no. Star fakes sick and asks her uncle Carlos to pick her up. He takes her to get frozen yogurt and star tells him that the officer that shot Khalil also pointed the gun at her and he was shocked.

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Chapter 17.Prom is a couple hours away and Starr gets ready. She goes to Prom and gets in a Rolls Royce with Chris. Starr realizes how Garden Height parties are different from Williamson parties. Maya talks to Starr and says how she tried to convince Maya to apologize but she refuses. Chris is still being distant to Starr because he found out that she was the witness himself and Starr didn't tell him. He feels traded by her because she didn't tell him herself, Starr gave her reasons on why she couldn't tell him but he still feels like it was a stab to the back. Starr tells Chris everything in the car. Seven and Layla knock on the window
Chapter 18.The carters are looking at their new house that they are moving into, Star, Seven, and Sekani all fight over which room is theirs. Sekani tells Maverick and Lisa that Seven was planning on not going to college but then Seven says he not going away for college, he plans on going to community college so he can stay her and watch his sisters. Maverick and Lisa say this is not a good idea and that he is passing up so many wonderful opportunities, so they make him hangs his mind. Later that night the basketball game is starting and the family starts to get competitive because they all like different teams and different players. While watching the game gun shots are fired at the Carters house and a brick is thrown through the window. Maverick grabs his gun and shots at the drive by shooters. All the neighbors and Stare uncle Carlos come over to make sure everyone is ok. Star says she doesn’t want to go to court anymore because she doesn’t want to be targeted again but her dad and Carlos re-assure her that everything will be fine. Carlos and Maverick end up getting on a big fight because of the difference they have on security

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Chapter 20Starr walks to her friend Mayas house. Maya is happy to see Starr but Hailey is there too. Maya sees that Starr is mad so she says sorry to Starr for using Khalils walk out as a way to get out of class. Hailey doesn't want to apologize to Starr. Starr watches 115's interview on the news and gets mad because she doesn't believe he should have a say. 115 says a totally different story then what had actually happened when they got pulled over. Hailey says she feels bad for officer 115 but Starr doesnt feel bad for him. Starr and Hailey get into an argument.
Chapter 21.Ten weeks have passed since Khalil’s  death. Carlos hosts a barbeque for Memorial Day at his house that also serves as a joint birthday/graduation party for Seven who has just turned eighteen and finished high school. Maverick cried when he saw his son get a diploma. The atmosphere is joyous, as the kids play in the pool and the adults dance to old-school hip hop music. Kenya  flirts with DeVante , who happily says that Carlos and Pan  have agreed to let him live there for his senior year of high school. He has even bonded with Nana  over their shared love of the card game spades.When Maya  and Chris  arrive, Starr feels her Garden Heights and Williamson worlds colliding, and worries about acting too “black” or too “white” for either group. Things are slightly tense at first as the two groups greet each other. Chris and Devante  slap palms. Kenya  introduces herself to Chris and then compliments Maya on her sneakers; Maya jokes about never running in them, and she and Kenya laugh. When Kenya asks where “blondie”—a.k.a. Hailey is, Maya excitedly launches into the story of Starr’s fight. Kenya eats the story up, and agrees when Maya says, “minorities have to stick together.” Much to Starr’s relief, everyone is getting along.

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Chapter 15
Lisa takes Starr to IHOP but Starr doesn't eat. Starr talks to her mom about what happened at Maya's house with her and Hailey. Starr's mom never liked Hailey since the first day. Starr talks to the DA its a white woman and Starr likes her because she doesn't ask stupid questions about Khalil. Maverick and Starr talk about Chris and he asks her what she likes about Chris. King goes to the store and asks for Devante and Maverick says that he knows nothing about that. King knows that Starr is the witness and he tells her she better keep her mouth shut. Lisa told everyone at dinner that she got a new job interview and that Pam recommended her.
Chapter 16.Starr does a television interview and he defends Khalil and  shuts down what people are saying that Khalil was responsible for his own death because he was a drug dealer. She also brings up khalil's moms debt that she owed but didn't mention to who.

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Back at the store, the Carters find a badly beaten Mr. Lewis, his eye swollen shut and cheek slashed. He says five King Lords attacked him, and is proud of putting up a fight. Lisa and Maverick note that he is lucky to be alive; with King Lords, snitches do not simply “get stitches”—they get “graves.” Mr. Lewis scoffs at their concerns. He says they were really after devante —that King will kill him when he finds him, and that King also knows Maverick is hiding him.
DeVante  reveals that King wanted him to kill the men who shot Dalvin which would only lead to Garden Disciples coming after him. As such, DeVante stole $5,000 from King in order to get his mother and sister out of town. His mother refused to let DeVante come with them, fearing he would put them all in danger.  Realizing how unsafe he is in Garden Heights, Maverick , though angry, softens, and brings DeVante to Carlos’s house—a move that surprises Starr, since Maverick never goes to Carlos’s house with them.Starr hears a familiar laugh at the front door, and sees Chris walk into Carlos’s  house; he saw the Carters’ car in the driveway and wanted to see if everything was okay. As the others greet Chris warmly, Maverick  realizes he is not a new presence in Starr’s life. Maverick grows furious to learn not only that his daughter has a white boyfriend, but that he was the last one to know about it. He is especially angry that Carlos knew before he did.
Chapter 14Needing to clear her head,Starr leaves and walks to Mayas  house nearby. Maya is excited to see Starr, but hailey , who is also there, remains cold. After a brief time playing video games, Hailey cuts the tension in the room and asks Starr why she is mad at them. Starr asks why Hailey attended the fake protest for Khalil , and Hailey defends herself by saying everyone else did it too. Maya apologizes for using a “tragedy to get out of class,” but Hailey refuses to admit she was wrong. Instead, she demands Starr apologize for calling her racist. Starr realizes that Hailey has always been a master of twisting situations so that she seems like the victim, but Starr refuses to fall for it anymore. Starr insists her fried chicken comment was, in fact, racist. Hailey still refuses to apologize, and they sit in tense silence while watching TV.

Hailey insensitively equates the pain of being called a racist with actually experiencing racism—not an entirely uncommon sentiment in modern real-world discussions of these issues. She refuses to admit her mistakes and only grows more defensive when called out. Starr finally begins to recognize how many slights she has allowed Hailey to get away with throughout their friendship, silencing herself to make Hailey feel more comfortable.Maya  flicks through channels and lands on the television interview with One-fifteens father.One fifteens father goes on to say that his son “loved” working in Garden Heights and “wanted to make a difference”—an attitude Starr compares to slave masters thinking “they were making a difference in black people’s lives.”After Hailey has gone, Mayasays that Hailey was lying: she did unfollow Starrs Tumblr because she was tired of seeing, as Hailey put it, the “black stuff.” As Maya names civil rights activists Starr posted images of, Starr is impressed that she has been “paying attention.” Maya says she had said nothing to Starr out of hope that Hailey would come around, but feels ashamed for not knowing better; Hailey had said racist things before.

Though Starr is taken aback by Hailey’s blatant racism, Maya asserts that it is not a new phenomenon. Even small, throwaway comments can be indicative of deeper prejudice, and people of color should not have to accept casual racism as a “normal” part of life, or minimize their feelings to keep white people comfortable.

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maya tells starr that after Thanksgiving their freshman year, Hailey asked Maya, who is Chinese, whether her family “ate cat.”  Maya says Starr had looked horrified at the moment but neither of them said anything. When Hailey laughed, they joined in. Starr is deeply ashamed, wondering if she felt that she “had” to laugh in that moment. Starr says they cannot let Hailey get away with her prejudice. Maya smiles and suggests the two of them form a “minority alliance.”Carlos admits that the interview with One fifteens father  made him rethink his earlier dismissal of Khalil as nothing more than a drug dealer. He is angry with himself for trying to rationalize the death of a boy he watched grow up. Whatever Khalil’s background, Carlos says, he should not have been killed for “opening a car door.” He also asserts that had he been at that traffic stop, he would not have shot Khalil.

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Chapter 11. The next day Williamson starts school is oddly quiet, when Starr asks what’s going on she is informed that haileys brother started a protest in the name of Khalil simply to get out of class.Hailey then says it’s messed up that they’re protesting a “drug dealers death.”Starr tells her to leave her alone and decides to not follow Hailey anymore.When students start chanting and walking out of class Starr stays behind along with Chris,Jess,Seven, and Layla.After school Starr sees Mr.lewis standing outside Mavericks store with a news crew surrounding him, to Starr’s protest Mr.Lewis ends up being interviewed. He “snitches” on King and his gang. After the interview Maverick tries to warn me. Lewis butbhe doesn’t seem to care and is willing to take the threat. During this discussion a police car pulls up and out hops out two officers.larry, one of the officers accuses Maverick of harrasing  mr.lewis. Starr watches and notices that they must of assumed this because of her fathers baggy clothes and tattoos.
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Tanks rumble through Garden Heights. A curfew has been implemented, and Maverick  is home with the family. Everyone feels safer with him around, and the mood is lighter in the Carter home. Maverick tends to his roses, which he fears are dying. He and Lisa have made up, and Maverick watches his wife as she works on the computer. Starr assumes she’s on Facebook updating her out-of-town relatives, but wonders how she could post positive news without mentioning everything that has been happening. Maverick asks Starr to get her old laptop to give to DeVante for school.Back in her bedroom, Starr checks on the new Tumblr blog she has started called The Khalil I Know. It includes photographs and stories about Khali  that contradict and complicate the image the media is painting of him. She sends the Tumblr link to Kenya . Though this isn’t speaking up on the news, Starr feels that she is still doing something for her friend. Soon, hundreds of people have liked her photos and begin posting their own memories of Khalil. Someone posts a video of Tupac explaining “Thug Life,” and Starr finally feels like she fully understands what it really means.

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Throughout Garden Heights protests erupt in Khalil’s name. Maverick spends the night at his store to protect it from rioters. Starr compares her neighborhood to a “war zone.” The sounds of a machine gun alert Lisa and the kids so she commands them to stay in the den. The family watches news coverage of the protest in the safety of their den.The news makes it sound as though “it’s Khalil’s  fault he died,” alleging there was a gun in the car and calling Khalil a drug dealer and gang banger. That night Starr has a nightmare about Natasha’s death. The next day seven wakes up Starr to tell her about their monthly basketball game, they leave the house and head for the park.Starr and Seven  play basketball, but then two young teens in the colors of the Garden Disciples approach. They ask Seven if he is “kinging”—that is, part of their rival gang—and even though he says he is neutral, the teens demand he and Starr hand over their things. DeVante appears and reminds the kids that Rose park is king territory.Starr initially thinks DeVante  is cute, until he calls her “li’l mamma.”Maverick pulls up to the basketball court, furious that Starr and Seven left the house without telling him or Lisa. He rants as he drives them home, pointing out the danger of going to play ball when the neighborhood is so dangerous that the National Guard has arrived. Back home, Lisa is equally angry. She demands Starr and Seven hand over their cellphones, and says they are all going to Carlos’s house. On the way to carlos’s Lisa tells Starr that Starr was not breathing when she was born,though Lisa had tried to do everything right throughout her pregnancy, this moment made her feel as though she had done something terribly wrong. A nurse grabbed Lisa’s hand and said even when doing the right thing, things can turn out wrong; “the key is to never stop doing right.” They arrive in Carlos’s neighborhood, Starr notices how it’s so different from Garden Heights.Chris shows up at the front door unannounced, wanting to check on Starr following the riots and asking why she’s ignoring him , Starr tells him it’s because he’s white and wouldn’t understand.
Chapter 10. On the way home Starr and Lisa pass through a police checkpoint, Starr feels anxious but eventually calms down.Maverick and Starr eat icecream  and watch Harry Potter together, Maverick compares the hogwarts houses to gangs because of they wear the same color and never lie on each other. While in the car with maverick, maverick plays Tupac and even when Starr teases him for it. He explains Tupac’s definition of thug life.After the talk Starr realizes what her communtiy is going through even before the whole Khalil situation, she decides she cannot be silent any further. When maverick and Starr arrive back at the store they find DeVante there.Devante explains how he’s hiding from King and his gang.Maverick then tells DeVante how he met his father in prison and listened to him tell him about his regrets.Maverick agreed to help DeVante if he works in their store. While Starr teaches him how to put price stickers on item DeVante opens up to Starr about feeling helpless.Starr overhears her parents fighting about having a better life and moving out of garden heights.

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Chapter 7. Khalil’s name finally appears on the news, along with the title “Suspected Drug Dealer.” The news does not mention that he was unarmed, and says the police spoke to an “unnamed witness.”
During gym Hailey drags Starr and Mayaonto the basketball court to play. Starr doesn’t really want to join in the game, and reflects that, without her noticing it, Hailey has somehow become the leader in their friend group.  During the game Starr gets distracted by Chris and Hayley makes a comment “pretend the ball is some fried chicken.” They lose the game and afterwards Starr confronts her about marketing that statement to the only black girl in the room. Hailey  defensively states that it was just a joke and that she can believe Starr would seem her a racist hailey  dismissively refers to Khalil as “the drug dealer,” and Starr realizes that is all the world will ever see Khalil as. Starr denies knowing Khalil. Hailey then asks Starr if she’s upset because the anniversary of Natasha’s death is coming up, this makes Starr burst into tears and leave. Starr fakes period cramps to get her uncle Carlos to pick her up early. He takes her to get frozen yogurt.She then pushes Carlos to explain why One- Fifteen  has not been arrested yet. Carlos defends his colleague, saying one can never know how they will react in that sort of situation. She then tells him how One- fifteen pointed his gun at her.
Chapter 8. It is the day of Khalil’s funeral. The parking lot is packed when the Carters arrive, and Starr sees multiple people dressed in “RIP Khalil” t-shirts.Pastor Eldridge greets the family and looks at Starr with pity. Starr feels her legs trembling and a wave of nausea as her family gets in line to approach Khalil’s open casket. She approaches the coffin and describes Khalil’s body as a mannequin of himself. Starr flashes back to seeing Natasha in her coffin. A woman named April Ofrah introduces herself and her Just Us For Justice organization, She tells the church that the police have no intention of arresting one fifteen , and that Khalil was unarmed at the time of his death. Ofrah then invites people to join a march past the police station after the ceremony.King, Lesha, and a group of King Lords suddenly enter from the back of the church. Iesha wears heavy makeup and a skimpy black dress, and Starr can sense the tension between her parents in that moment.The group walks to the front of the church and one of the King Lords lays a gray bandana across Khalil’s chest. A furious Mrs.Rosalie  snatches the bandana and throws it back at King, calling him a demon and screaming for them all to leave. Starr feels quirky for abandoning Khalil when he was alive, she also admits to herself that Khalil was her first crush.outiside of the church news vans and protestors crowd the area, Lisa shields Starr from them and head towards the car. April Ofrah approaches the Carters and offers to help Starr with legal representation. She asserts that the case is about to get national media attention, and she wants to help protect Starr’s privacy.

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Chapter 5. When Starr arrives  at school, Starr flips the “switch” in her brain to become “Williamson Starr,” the persona she inhabits to fit in with the posh, predominantly white world of Williamson. She avoids slang and “stank eyes,” and holds her tongue so that she won’t seem like a stereotypical “angry black girl.” Above all, she does not want anyone to think she is “ghetto.” Starr sees her friend Maya they both find Hayley and other members of the basketball team, as they talk about their extravagant spring break trip Starr feels left out once again.She also feels tension with Hailey, and notes that she has ever since Hailey unfollowed Starr’s Tumblr when she posted a photograph of Emmett Till. She runs into Chris who even while mad she misses, she tries to stay angry until he starts rapping to the Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air theme song. However when he grabs her hand she flashes back to Khalil’s shooting  and recoils.Seven drives Starr and Sekani to the clinic where Lisa works. On the way, a police car pulls beside them at a stoplight. Tension fills the car. They arrive at the clinic and greet Lisa. Soon an Brenda arrives in grief Starr judges her for grieving over a son she “ didn’t even care about” Her mother(Lisa) scolds Starr and tell her no matter what that was her son and she has the right to grieve.
Chapter 6. On the way to the police station Lisa reminds Starr to breathe.They pass Carlos’s desk, which Starr notices has pictures of her on it. Carlos reminds her to talk to the police today if she wants the case to be handled. Lisa demands to go into the room with Starr, this helps Starr realize she’s not alone in the situation. Starr repeats the teaching of “the talk” she remains aware of how she holds herself and speaks infront of the detectives.Gomez and Wilkes ask Starr whether Khalil seemed “irate” after being pulled over by One-Fifteen, and assert that he was “hesitant” to get out of the car. Starr remembers to not let them put words in her mouth and tell them that he wasn’t being difficult. They detectives continue to ask Starr whether he was drinking, sold drugs, or was in a gang. Starr can no longer hold her tongue, and says that Khalil “didn’t pull the trigger on himself.”  Lisa asks why it seems like instead of onefifteen on trial it’s Khalil and Starr, they leave the police station knowing justice won’t be served.

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Chapter 3. While waiting for her parents to get her Starr watches officials “leave khalils body in the street like an exhibit”  she feels numb with pain at this point. After getting home Starr wakes up the next day and remembers her friend Natasha who was also killed infront of Starr but at the age of 10. Starr heads to the kitchen during breakfast Seven  discusses a drug lord named King moving in with his girlfriend( Sevens mother) and that he would like to stay with them so that he can defend his mother and sister when King tries to hurt them. Seven asks why they shot Khalil, and Starr responds that she and Khalil didn’t do anything wrong, and that Khalil did not have a gun. Maverick notes that this will cause people in the neighborhood to “lose their minds.” Starr worries about what will happen when the world finds out she was in the car. Starr thought she would have “the loudest voice” if any situation such as this would’ve happened to her. Now she is afraid to speak up. Starr tends to the family pitbull while  her father tends to his garden of roses they then drive towards Carters Grocery. Mr Lewis scolds Maverick for replacing pictures of Marting Luther King with Huey Newton he also says  he heard Khalil got killed this makes Starr angry and she makes him coffe out of day old grounds.Kenya enters the store and offers Starr some of her chips as a form of sympathy. Starr wishes she stayed with Kenya. One the way home Kenya, Maverick and Starr are stopped by Kenya’s father King. MAverick used to be associated with King and his gang but got out, King asks him to hold a package for him which Maverick refuses. Maverick warns him to never lay a hand on Seven and reminds him that he served time for him. King then takes Kenya and leaves.
Chapter 4. Starr overhears her parents arguing with Carlos, who is Lisa’s brother and a detective, about Khalil’s  shooting. Carlos reveals that he is on the same force as One fifteen.  He defends him by questions why Starr was in the car with a “drug dealer” and  accusing Maverick of making “everything about race.” Starr enters the room and Carlos asks if she would like to speak to the police, Starr is scared at first but agrees to do it since her uncle assures her.On Sunday morning Starr and her parents visit Mrs. Rosalie , Khalil’s  grandmother who also helped care for Lisa. Starr is filled with nostalgia of her and Khalil when they were young.Mrs. Rosalie confirms that Khalil was selling drugs, but also says he wanted to talk to Maverick about how to get out of the game. Starr  worries that the public will only see Khalil as a drug dealer, even though “he was so much more than that.”

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chapter 1. Starr goes to a party with her "friend" Kenya, when at the party Kenya leaves her to go get drinks with her other friends.Starr then sees her childhood friend Khalil and they talk catch up and talk about his grandmothers health.While the are talking , gunshots are heard and they quickly leave the party.
chapter 2.While on the way home they get stopped by a police officer, Starr remembers the lesson her father taught her on how to deal with the cops.The cop ask them to step out of the car and wait until he returns. As he walks back Khalil opens the drivers door to ask Starr if she’s okay and the police offficer shoots her three times in the back, Starr watches her friend die infront of her. She then runs out of the car to his side, one fifteen tell her not to move and points his gun at her.