From acclaimed author Budhos (Watched) comes an extraordinary and timely novel--named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book--that examines what it\'s like to grow up under surveillance, something many Americans experience and most Muslim Americans know. -- SLJ , Starred.
Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book, We Need Diverse Books Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book YALSA Best YA Fiction for Young Adults A fast-moving, gripping tale.
Naeem\'s riveting story is as vivid and involving as today\'s headlines.
Is he saving or betraying his community? Inspired by actual surveillance practices in New York City and elsewhere, Marina Budhos\'s extraordinary and timely novel examines what it\'s like to grow up with Big Brother always watching .
But as time goes on, the line between informing and entrapping blurs.
He wants his parents to be proud of him.
Naeem wants to be a hero--a protector.
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.
But then mistakes catch up with him.
Naeem is a Bangledeshi teenager living in Queens who thinks he can charm his way through anything.
Anyone might be a watcher.
Be careful what you say and who you say it to.
An extraordinary and timely novel, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book, examines what it\'s like to grow up under surveillance in America.
From acclaimed author Budhos (Watched) comes an extraordinary and timely novel--named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book--that examines what it\'s like to grow up under surveillance, something many Americans experience and most Muslim Americans know
