Punching the air
(Book)
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.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Fiction.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Fiction.
False imprisonment -- Fiction.
Judicial error -- Fiction.
Justice -- Fiction.
Male prisoners -- Fiction.
Teenage artists -- Fiction.
Level 5.7, 5 Points
Notes
Zoboi, I. A., Salaam, Y., & Pasha, O. T. (2020). Punching the air. First edition. New York, NY, Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Zoboi, Ibi Aanu, Yusef Salaam and Omar T., Pasha. 2020. Punching the Air. New York, NY, Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Zoboi, Ibi Aanu, Yusef Salaam and Omar T., Pasha, Punching the Air. New York, NY, Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Zoboi, Ibi Aanu,, et al. Punching the Air. First edition. New York, NY, Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
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