Punching the air

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Author:

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

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Publication Date:

[2020]

Language:

English

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[2020]

First edition

Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

1 copy on order.

Westbrook Young Adult Fiction

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Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. "Boys just being boys" turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I think will be my life starts today. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it. With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both.

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Salaam, Yusef,1974-author
Pasha, Omar T.,illustrator
Salaam, Yusef,author

ISBN:

9780008422141
9780062996480
9780062996497
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African American teenage boys -- Fiction
African American teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
African Americans -- Fiction
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
Artists -- Fiction
Artists -- Juvenile fiction
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Fiction
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Juvenile fiction
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Fiction
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Juvenile fiction
False imprisonment -- Fiction
False imprisonment -- Juvenile fiction
Judicial error -- Fiction
Judicial error -- Juvenile fiction
Justice -- Fiction
Justice -- Juvenile fiction
Male prisoners -- Fiction
Male prisoners -- Juvenile fiction
Novels in verse
Racism -- Juvenile fiction
Teenage artists -- Fiction
Teenage artists -- Juvenile fiction
Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction

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Punching the air

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Punching the air / written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam
Punching the air / written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha

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Punching the air

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African American teenage boys
African Americans
Artists
Criminal justice, Administration of
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
False imprisonment
Judicial error
Justice
Male prisoners
Racism
Teenage artists
Teenage boys

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