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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer), author. Title: Hollow fires / Samira Ahmed. Description: First edition. | New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. | Audience: Ages 12 & up. | Summary: After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021040941 | ISBN 9780316282642 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316282840 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Hate crimes—Juvenile fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Juvenile fiction. | Reporters and reporting—Juvenile fiction. | Muslim teenagers—Juvenile fiction. | White supremacy movements—Juvenile fiction. | Chicago (Ill.)—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Hate crimes—Fiction. | Murder—Fiction. | Reporters and reporting—Fiction. | Muslims—Fiction. | Ghosts—Fiction. | White supremacy movements—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories. | Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction. | LCGFT: Novels. | Detective and mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.A345 Ho 2022 | DDC 823.92 [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021040941
ISBNs: 978-0-316-28264-2 (hardcover), 978-0-316-28284-0 (ebook)
E3-20220331-JV-NF-ORI