From the publisher:

“Adama Bah grew up in New York City after her family immigrated from Guinea. She was thirteen when the Twin Towers were attacked and she began to experience hatred, racism, and prejudice. Then, on March 24, 2005, FBI agents arrested Adama and her father. Falsely accused of terrorism and of volunteering to be a suicide bomber, she was held for six weeks in a detention center.

Adama's propulsive first-person story recounts the events surrounding her arrest, the persecution she faced for crimes she did not commit, and its impact on her life. In Accused, a young writer opens a window for young readers on the discrimination faced by Muslim Americans after 9/11.”