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020 _a9780062996480
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050 4 _aPZ7.1.Z64
_bPun 2020
082 0 4 _a813.6
_223
100 1 _aZoboi, Ibi Aanu,
_eauthor.
_970707
245 1 0 _aPunching the air /
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bBalzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c�2020
300 _a386 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm
520 _aFrom 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.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_vFiction.
_9104374
650 0 _aArtists
_vFiction.
_9104375
650 0 _aFalse imprisonment
_vFiction.
_9104376
650 0 _aAfrican American teenage boys
_vFiction.
_9104377
650 0 _aTeenage artists
_vFiction.
_9104378
650 0 _aJudicial error
_vFiction.
_9104379
650 0 _aMale prisoners
_vFiction.
_9104380
650 0 _aDiscrimination in criminal justice administration
_vFiction.
_9104381
650 0 _aCriminal justice, Administration of
_vFiction.
_9104382
650 0 _aJustice
_vFiction.
_9104383
655 0 _aYoung adult fiction
_9104384
655 7 _aNovels in verse.
_2lcgft
_9104385
700 1 _aSalaam, Yusef,
_eauthor.
_9103269
700 1 _aPasha, Omar T.,
_eillustrator.
_9103270
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