AllegedlyOrange Is the New Black" meets Walter Dean Myers' "Monster" in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home.

How does he match his clothes

Until they're not

say the friends she makes along the way

You don't know me

from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder

each with a corresponding active telephone number where she has recorded excerpts of her poems

Ultimately

" --School Library Journal

And Somali refugee Muna Saheed

and inspires hope for an antiracist future

Before there was a dead body

This is a book about the here and now