To Judge A Shadow (Paperback)

Paperback. Everyone saw the video. Almost nobody saw what happened.In Bellweather, Texas, one violent night and a blurry piece of footage are enough to turn suspicion into certainty. When seventeen-year-old Isaiah Bennett is identified by a facial-recognition system after a deadly robbery, the town decides the case is closed.But fifteen-year-old Mara Reyes knows how quickly a story can harden into truth when screens, headlines, fear, and repetition all say the same thing. Armed with a notebook, a stubborn conscience, and a student journalist's instinct for inconvenient questions, Mara begins pulling at the loose threads.What she discovers is more dangerous than a faulty algorithm. It is a community willing to judge before it is willing to understand.To Judge a Shadow is a contemporary coming-of-age courtroom novel about prejudice, technology, family loyalty, moral courage, and the perilous distance between seeing someone and truly knowing them. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…