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Punching the air

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu (author.). Pasha, Omar T., (illustrator.). Salaam, Yusef, (author.).

Summary: 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. 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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  • ISBN: 9780062996480
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
Subject: African American teenage boys -- Fiction
African Americans -- Fiction
Artists -- Fiction
Judicial error -- Fiction
Poets -- Fiction
Truth -- Fiction
Young adult fiction
Genre: Novels in verse.

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  • 7 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McBride & District Public Library.

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