Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist, and as editor of her school newspaper has learned to find the facts without letting personal biases affect the story. Then she finds the body of a murdered boy. Jawad Ali was fourteen years old when he built a cosplay jetpack that a teacher mistook for a bomb. The jetpack got him arrested, labeled a terrorist-- and eventually killed. But Jawad was more than "Bomb Boy." He was a person with a life worth remembering. Safiya seeks to tell the whole truth about the murdered boy and those who killed him because of their hate-based beliefs. -- adapted from jacket
Study Program
Accelerated Reader UG 5.1 12 12 517612
Audience
Ages 12 & up. Little, Brown and Company.
Summary
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.