An exceptional and timely book, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book, examines what it’s prefer to grow up under security in America.

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

Naeem is a Bangledeshi teen surviving in Queens who thinks he can elegance his method through anything. But then mistakes catch up with him. Therefore do the cops, who present 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 really wants to be a hero-a protector. He wants his parents to become pleased with him. But as time goes on, the line between informing and entrapping blurs. Is usually he saving or betraying his community?

Influenced by actual surveillance practices in NEW YORK and elsewhere, Marina Budhos’s extraordinary and timely novel examines what it’s prefer to grow up with Big Brother always viewing. Naeem’s riveting tale is as brilliant and concerning as today’s headlines.

Walter Dean Myers Prize Honor Book, We Need Diverse Books

Asian/Pacific American Award for Books Honor Book

YALSA Best YA Fiction for Young Adults

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