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Imagine a United States in which registries and detainment camps for Muslim Americans are a reality. This is the world of fifteen-year-old Sarah-Mary Williams of Hannibal, Missouri. Sarah-Mary, who has strong opinions on almost everything, isn't concerned with the internments, as she doesn't know an...

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Main Author: Moriarty, Laura, 1970- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Young adult fiction.
Islamophobia > Young adult fiction.
Patriotism > Young adult fiction.
Muslim Americans > Young adult fiction.
Concentration camps > Young adult fiction.
Dystopias > Young adult fiction.
Dystopian fiction > Young adult.
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Summary:Imagine a United States in which registries and detainment camps for Muslim Americans are a reality. This is the world of fifteen-year-old Sarah-Mary Williams of Hannibal, Missouri. Sarah-Mary, who has strong opinions on almost everything, isn't concerned with the internments, as she doesn't know any Muslims. She assumes that everything she reads and sees in the news is true, and that these plans are better for everyone's safety. Then she meets Sadaf, a fugitive escaping to Canada. Should she turn her in ... or help her?
Physical Description:402 pages ; 22 cm
Audience:Young Adult.
9Y.
ISBN:9780062694102
0062694103
Author Notes:Laura Moriarty was born in 1970 in Honolulu, HI. She attended the University of Kansas to earn her degree in social work and later her M.A. in Creative Writing. She went on to be awarded the George Bennett Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. She soon became a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. It was then that she started her writing career. Her title's include: While I'm Falling, The Rest of Her Life, The Center of Everything, and The Chaperone.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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