Internment

One thing 17-year-old Layla Amin never thought she'd face in life was INTERNMENT by the American government simply because she and her family are Muslim. She lives with her professor father and chiropractor mother in what had always been a liberal college town in California. Her parents aren't particularly religious and her boyfriend, David, is Jewish. How could anyone possibly think they're potential terrorists? But two and a half years ago, a new president was elected, and what followed was a rapid unraveling of democracy -- 18 months since America enacted a Muslim ban, one year since questions on a census landed Muslims on a registry, nine months since the first book burning, and one month since the president declared that "Muslims are a threat to America." When the Exclusion Authority arrives to "relocate" the family, there's no outcry from the neighbors they once considered friends. The family joins thousands of other Muslims at Camp Mobius in the high desert of California, where they have ID numbers stamped on the inside of their wrists. The camp director and guards make no effort to hide their racism and Islamophobia and think nothing of using violence to keep the internees in check. But Layla and a group of friends decide to fight back. With the help of an unexpected ally inside the camp, she's able to contact David and begin to send a series of blog posts to the outside world.