Punching the Air
Author: Ibi Zoboi , Yusef Salaam Category: Art, Crime, Culture and Heritage, High School and (Young) Adult, Middle School, Mysteries and Secrets, Novels in Verse, Perseverance and Determination, Poetry and Lyrical Stories, Police Brutality, Prejudice and Racism, Prison and Criminal Sentencing, Racial Violence and Terrorism Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Language: English Reading Age: High School and (Young) Adult, Middle School More DetailsSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of the Noughts & Crosses series and The Hate U Give.
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.
Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal Shahid’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.
Punching the Air
Written by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Source: Publisher (HarperCollins Publishers)
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