Internment - Hardcover

Ahmed, Samira

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9780316522694: Internment
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0316522694 ISBN 13: 9780316522694
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019

Synopsis

An instant New York Times bestseller!

 

"Internment sets itself apart...terrifying, thrilling and urgent." –Entertainment Weekly
 
Rebellions are built on hope.
 

Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.

 

With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards.

 

Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today.

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About the Author

Samira Ahmed is the New York Times bestselling author of Love, Hate, & Other Filters, Internment and Hollow Fires. She was born in Bombay, India, and has lived in New York, Chicago, and Kauai, where she spent a year searching for the perfect mango. She currently resides in the Midwest. Find her online at samiraahmed.com and on Twitter and Instagram @sam_aye_ahm.

Reviews

Gr 8 Up-"Exclusion laws" imposed by an Islamophobic president have upended the lives of Muslims across the United States, including Layla's. Removed from school for her own good by her parents, Layla circumvents state-imposed curfews to see her boyfriend, David, who is Jewish. When she and her family and other Muslims are rounded up by the authorities and forced to live in an internment camp in the California desert, Layla learns what it means to survive-and to fight. This cautionary tale for our times draws parallels between the situation Muslim Americans face today and the horrors of the Japanese American internment.α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0316522694
ISBN 13 
9780316522694
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
400
Rating
  • 3.86 out of 5 stars
    20,527 ratings by Goodreads

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