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Hollow Fires
Hollow Fires | Samira Ahmed
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After 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.
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A Muslim teen gains notoriety for bringing a “bomb” to school (it‘s a jet pack for his Halloween costume), then goes missing. Safiyeh is at a different school, but experiences prejudice escalating and wants to focus attention on Jawad‘s disappearance. Inspired by a historic real story, but configured for our era, this is terrific.

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Oof. This book was good but so heavy. Everything that happened to Safiya and Jawad just made me ill. Basing it off the Leopold and Loeb murder was super clever, tho. #yalit