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Gr 8 Up–In a world disturbingly similar to our own, the president of the United States incites hate, sending Muslim Americans to a prison camp in the California desert, near Manzanar, where those of Japanese descent were incarcerated by the U.S. government during World War II. Seventeen-year-old Layla burns with anger—at the malevolent Director, who runs the camp; at the complicit Muslim American "minders" who work for the camp; and at those ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Xenophobic fear-mongering, book burnings, terrified families rounded up in the middle of the night to be thrown into internment camps-all painfully familiar elements of America's past and present-descend upon Layla Amin's near-future dystopian world like a drizzle that steadily becomes a torrent. Seventeen-year-old Layla watches as a racist and Islamophobic president emboldens a hateful regime that considers all ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More