Bibliograph

Hollow fires, Samira Ahmed

Type

Label

Hollow fires, Samira Ahmed

Language

eng

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 12 & up, Little, Brown and Company

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Hollow fires

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1312275718

Responsibility statement

Samira Ahmed

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 5.1, 12, 12, 517612

Summary

Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist, and as editor of her school newspaper has learned to find the facts without letting personal biases affect the story. Then she finds the body of a murdered boy. Jawad Ali was fourteen years old when he built a cosplay jetpack that a teacher mistook for a bomb. The jetpack got him arrested, labeled a terrorist-- and eventually killed. But Jawad was more than "Bomb Boy." He was a person with a life worth remembering. Safiya seeks to tell the whole truth about the murdered boy and those who killed him because of their hate-based beliefs. -- adapted from jacketAfter discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school

Target audience

adolescent

Classification

Creator