Jacksonville Public Library

Hollow fires, Samira Ahmed

eng

no index present

Ages 12 & up, Little, Brown and Company

fiction

Hollow fires

1267751652

Samira Ahmed

"Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she's learned as editor of her school newspaper 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 jet pack 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. Guided throughout her investigation by Jawad's haunting voice, Safiya seeks to tell the whole truth about the murdered boy and those who killed him because of their hate-based beliefs. Through an innovative format and lyrical prose, this powerful, gripping novel tackles the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthing hidden truths, and the undeniable power of hope." --Book jacket

adolescent