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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.

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