What is the most precious thing after the way you look? Your voice. But not to Alice. It wasn't her fault she had to live with a cracked voice all her life. Alice Silvers hates her dad now, for everything he did.

Written by Graham McNamee, Hate You was awarded Honor Book in the Fifteenth Annual Delacorte Press Contest for a First Young Adult Novel.

Graham McNamee uses different techniques to describe the way Alice feels and thinks. As a young girl, Alice's dad was very aggressive. Making a mistake, Alice's mum didn't kick him out earlier. One day they got into a big fight, horrible it was. Alice's dad shook her mum by the shoulders and grabbed her by the throat. That's when Alice went and told them to stop. Her father switched hands from her mother to Alice and held her throat tight. This is the...