Whew this book was a journey and I feel like I have been running right along with our main characters Marco, Catherine and Jamal. Jamal is in downtown Baltimore when The Dome is dropped and he is trapped. The Dome is designed to keep all the undesirables in, so the cops can handle them and their Black Lives Matter movement, while the rest of the world is fed a diet of propaganda about The Dome. Working together with Catherine and Marco he is determined to prove that three kids can change the world. This is a work of futuristic fiction but these days it doesn’t feel so far off, this authors dedication of the his book to all the African Americans killed by cops shows that. How er his book reminds us that a few people, working together can make a change! I loved this book and devoured it in a day, I can’t wait to bring it into my classroom.

Jamal goes to downtown Baltimore for a protest after an officer is acquitted of killing a black man. Jamal attends a private school and is interested in journalism, so he figures that if he can get some good photos from the protest, they will better his chances of getting scholarships. Armed with a Pentax K1000, he heads into the city, which is almost an hour away from his home.

And once he's there at the protest, things start going wrong. First, Jamal is harassed by white police officers who tell him that he can't take photos. And then his mom calls; she tries to get him to leave the city before the call is cut off. It seems ALL outside communication has been interrupted. And that the city of Baltimore has been sealed inside of an electric dome. That's when things go from bad to worse.

Jamal doesn't live in Baltimore, so when everyone is told to go home, he's not sure what to do. Until he runs into another teen and they decide to team up.

This book is like a Black Lives Matter protest meets the Hunger Games. Fast-paced and full of action.