Punching the air
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Published
New York, NY : Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Status
Morro Bay Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN
1 available
TEEN
1 available
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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San Luis Obispo Library - Teen Fiction | TEEN | Checked Out | May 9, 2024 |
Morro Bay Library - Teen Fiction | TEEN | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African American teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Artists -- Juvenile fiction.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Juvenile fiction.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Juvenile fiction.
False imprisonment -- Juvenile fiction.
Judicial error -- Juvenile fiction.
Justice -- Juvenile fiction.
Male prisoners -- Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
Teenage artists -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Artists -- Juvenile fiction.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Juvenile fiction.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Juvenile fiction.
False imprisonment -- Juvenile fiction.
Judicial error -- Juvenile fiction.
Justice -- Juvenile fiction.
Male prisoners -- Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
Teenage artists -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
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Published
New York, NY : Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 5.7, 5 Points
Level 5.7, 5 Points
Notes
Description
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. "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? 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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