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Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:An extraordinary and timely novel, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book, examines what itâ??s like to grow up under surveillance in America. 

Be careful what you say and who you say it to. Anyone might be a watcher.
 
Naeem is a Bangledeshi teenager living in Queens who thinks he can charm his way through anything. But then mistakes catch up with him. So do the cops, who offer him an impossible choice: spy on his Muslim neighbors and report back to them on shady goings-on, or face a police record. Naeem wants to be a heroâ??a protector. He wants his parents to be proud of him. But as time goes on, the line between informing and entrapping blurs. Is he saving or betraying his community?

Inspired by actual surveillance practices in New York City and elsewhere, Marina Budhosâ??s extraordinary and timely novel examines what itâ??s like to grow up with Big Brother always watching.
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teen realistic fiction (Muslim teen caught up in anti-terrorist surveillance that focuses on Muslim communities in recent NYC).
This isn't really a suspense/thriller that you might expect from the cover--it's a pretty quiet story (since Muslim communities are just ordinary communities) with mostly inner dialogue/introspection and very little conflict/action at all except for the main character's moral dilemma that he faces towards the end. There are so very few American-published books to be found with Muslim characters, however, that this ended up on my radar.
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  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
An excellent look at the prejudice shown to POC in America. Also spotlights issues with police pressuring POC to spy on one another. Very "Big Brother" feeling! ( )
  mrsrenick | Apr 19, 2020 |
I got this book as part of a box I received for attending a conference. Just by looking at the cover I thought this might be a sci-fi dystopian style book but really it is more about how Muslims are unfairly prejudiced against by American society- especially the police. The book was good but I found myself disappointed in the main character at times. ( )
  AmberKirbey | Apr 11, 2020 |
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What do you do when you think you don’t have any choices? Naeem gets in trouble with the police for something his friend did. Now, they want him to spy on the people in his immigrant Queens, New York neighborhood. If he finds something suspicious, he will be rewarded with money and protection. Who can he trust? Who is watching him? This book is an inside look at the perilous lives of immigrant Americans. I will make this book available for the Midwest, rural teens in our library who may not know what it’s like for Muslims in this country.
Literary Merit: Good
Characterization: Good
Audience: High School
Recommended: Yes ( )
  SWONroyal | Aug 29, 2017 |
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Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:An extraordinary and timely novel, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book, examines what itâ??s like to grow up under surveillance in America. 

Be careful what you say and who you say it to. Anyone might be a watcher.
 
Naeem is a Bangledeshi teenager living in Queens who thinks he can charm his way through anything. But then mistakes catch up with him. So do the cops, who offer him an impossible choice: spy on his Muslim neighbors and report back to them on shady goings-on, or face a police record. Naeem wants to be a heroâ??a protector. He wants his parents to be proud of him. But as time goes on, the line between informing and entrapping blurs. Is he saving or betraying his community?

Inspired by actual surveillance practices in New York City and elsewhere, Marina Budhosâ??s extraordinary and timely novel examines what itâ??s like to grow up with Big Brother always watching.

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