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Punching the Air

By Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam
Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher HarperCollins Imprint Balzer + Bray ISBN

9780062996480

Awards and Honors Publisher's Weekly Best Young Adult Books of 2020
2021 Walter Award, Teen Category
2021 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Honoree

Punching the Air

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CONTENT NOTIFICATIONS

Language: Racial or Ethnic Epithet/Slur,Language: Strong Language,Violence: General

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?

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