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Hollow fires / Samira Ahmed.

ISBN: 9780316282642
ISBN: 0316282642
Physical Description: 404 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer), (author.).

Summary:

Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she’s learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist’s job is to find the facts and not let personal biases affect the story. But all that changes the day 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. A jetpack that got him arrested, labeled a terrorist—and eventually killed. But he’s more than a dead body, and more than “Bomb Boy.” He was a person with a life worth remembering. Driven by Jawad’s haunting voice guiding her throughout her investigation, Safiya seeks to tell the whole truth about the murdered boy and those who killed him because of their hate-based beliefs.