The Terrorist: Caroline Cooney

This book was geared toward teenagers and dealt with terrorists in London. The story centered on an international school in England where 50% of the students are American and the others are from all over the world. A little boy, Billy, was handed a bomb in the subway and is killed when it goes off. His older sister, Laura, becomes obsessed with finding his killer and believes it could have been someone in her school. Suddenly a girl from Iran becomes her friend and asks for help to get out of a marriage to a fifty-four year old in Iran who already has 3 wives. She wants to use Billy's passport to escape to the US. Laura, being naïve agrees and it isn't until they are at the airport that she realizes Jehran is involved in the terrorism plot. Luckily her friends put the story together about the same time and the police arrive. Since Jehran is a minor and whoever lived at her house had vanished, she is put into foster care and one day vanished. Laura's family moves back to the US and tries to piece their life together.