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    Punching the air / written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha.

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    • Title:Punching the air / written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha.
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    • Author/Creator:Zoboi, Ibi Aanu, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Salaam, Yusef, author.
      Pasha, Omar T., illustrator.
    • Published/Created:New York, NY : Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
      ©2020

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
      Artists--Juvenile fiction.
      False imprisonment--Juvenile fiction.
      African American teenage boys--Juvenile fiction.
      Teenage artists--Juvenile fiction.
      Judicial error--Juvenile fiction.
      Male prisoners--Juvenile fiction.
      Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Juvenile fiction.
      Criminal justice, Administration of--Juvenile fiction.
      Justice--Juvenile fiction.
      Racism--Juvenile fiction.
      African Americans--Fiction.
      Teenage boys--Fiction.
      Artists--Fiction.
      Judicial error--Fiction.
      Male prisoners--Fiction.
      Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Fiction.
      Criminal justice, Administration of--Fiction.
      Racism--Fiction.
      Justice--Fiction.
    • Genre/Form: Novels in verse.
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Description:386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
    • Cast:Pasha, Omar T., illustrator.
    • Summary: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.
    • ISBN:9780062996480 (hardcover)
      0062996487 (hardcover)
      9780008422141 (pbk.)
      0008422141 (pbk.)
      9780063059306 (special edition)
      0063059304 (special edition)
      9780063035980 (special edition)
      0063035987 (special edition)
      9780008422158 (ePub ebook)
      000842215X (ePub ebook)
    • Contents:Part I. Birth
      Old soul
      Courtroom
      Character witness
      Gray suit
      Anger management
      White space
      White space II
      The thinker
      Two mouths
      Blank page
      Black ink
      face painting
      Movie star
      Fan club
      Black Mona Lisa
      Picasso face
      Cacophony
      The last judgement
      Counting game
      Knockout game
      Ball game
      Counting game II
      The scream
      The scream II
      Refrain
      Blind justice
      Thoghts and prayers
      Slave ship
      Family portrait
      The watch
      Ocean
      Clone
      Conversations with God
      African American
      Coming to America
      The entombment
      Inferno
      Processed
      Rights
      Books
      Booked
      Money
      New ID
      DNA
      Middle passage
      Coming to America II
      Hope.
      Part II. America
      Auction block
      God, the artist
      Wallflower
      Sunrise
      Pipeline
      Conversations with God II
      Conversations with God III
      Pipeline II
      Schooled
      Schooled II
      Schooled III
      Schooled IV
      Schooled V
      Free time
      Black canvas
      Cubism
      Conversations with God IV
      Wallflower II
      Conversations with God V
      The open window
      Conversations with God VI
      The bridge in the rain
      Microphone
      Hype man
      Conversations with God VII
      Meditation
      Guernica
      Dust
      Family portrait II
      Expressionism
      Conversations with God VIII
      White space III
      The persistence of memory
      Blind justice II
      Schooled VI
      Pipeline III
      Brotherhood
      Brotherhood II
      Cubism II
      Art school
      The entombment II.
      Part III. Hope II
      Hope III
      Lost-and-found
      Booked II
      Family portrait III
      Blank page II
      Guernica II
      The entombment III
      Saint Peter in prison
      Art school II
      Harmony
      African American II
      Butterflies
      DNA II
      Conversations with God IX
      Blank canvas II
      Surrealism
      Brotherhood III
      Brotherhood IV
      Brotherhood V
      Conversations with God X
      Butterflies II
      Art school III
      Brotherhood VI
      Art school IV
      American graffiti
      Brotherhood VII
      Young Basquiat
      The persistence of memory II
      Meditation II
      Brotherhood VII
      American graffiti II
      Young Basquiat II
      Father figure
      Brotherhood IX
      Wallflower III
      Hope IV
      Butterflies III
      Young Basquiat III
      Hope V.
      A note from the authors
      Acknowledgments.
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