Punching the air, written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha
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Punching the air, written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha
Language
eng
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illustrations
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Literary Form
poetry
Main title
Punching the air
Responsibility statement
written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha
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. 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
Target audience
adolescent
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Creator
Subject
- False imprisonment -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage artists -- Juvenile fiction
- Justice -- Juvenile fiction
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Juvenile fiction
- Judicial error -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels in verse
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Male prisoners -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Artists -- Juvenile fiction
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
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- Contributor2
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject12
- False imprisonment -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage artists -- Juvenile fiction
- Justice -- Juvenile fiction
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Juvenile fiction
- Judicial error -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels in verse
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Male prisoners -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Artists -- Juvenile fiction
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
- Content2
- Author2
- Illustrator1