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An exceptional and timely novel, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Publication, examines what it’s like to grow up under surveillance in America.

Be careful what you state and who you state it to. Anyone may be a watcher.

Naeem is a Bangledeshi teenager living in Queens who thinks he can attraction his way through anything. But then mistakes catch up with him. Therefore do the cops, who offer him an difficult choice: spy on his Muslim neighbors and report back again to them on shady about Watched goings-on, or face a police record. Naeem wants to be a hero-a protector. He wants his parents to become pleased with him. But in the future, the line between informing and entrapping blurs. Is he conserving or betraying his community?

Motivated 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 YOUR GOVERNMENT always viewing. Naeem’s riveting story is as stunning and including as today’s headlines.

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Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book

YALSA Best YA Fiction for ADULTS

“A fast-moving, gripping tale.” -SLJ, Starred