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Language: Racial or Ethnic Epithet/Slur,Language: Strong Language,Violence: General
Punching the Air
By Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam
Edition
2021 Walter Award, Teen Category
2021 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Honoree
By Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam
Hardcover edition
Publisher HarperCollins Imprint Balzer + Bray ISBN9780062996480
Awards and Honors Publisher's Weekly Best Young Adult Books of 20202021 Walter Award, Teen Category
2021 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Honoree
Punching the Air
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SKU
9780062996480J
The story that I thought
was my life
didn’t start on the day
I was born
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?
was my life
didn’t start on the day
I was born
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?
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