Tough Calls All Around

Sorry none of our SBS gang could make it to the wind-up. We missed your good company and your food. Really tough calls on three strong - although I'd resist calling any great - final selections. We were deadlocked. Two of us strongly for Scythe and two of us strongly for Holding Up the Universe. And with that seeming to cast aside The Hate U Give, I trundle off to bed thinking about the one student at our school who has regressed rather than prospered. Whose connections with the adults in the building, and, indeed, his family and friends, have winnowed. The kid who I am equal parts infuriated with and deeply saddened for. What is the one thing I get him to do, somewhat regularly, when he's in my office? Yep, he's 3/4 through The Hate U Give. Please make sense of this and distribute our votes accordingly.