Internment


Internment
by Samira Ahmed

Publisher Information:  New York, NY:  Little, Brown and Company, 2019

Summary:  Set in a horrifying near-fututre United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Admin 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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Links of Interest:

Author website:  samiraahmed.com

Educataor's guide:  HERE

 

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