Punching the Air

Author : Ibi Zoboi,Yusef Salaam

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 7 December 2021

ISBN : 9780062996497

Price : €18.71

Description

New York TimesandUSA Todaybestseller *Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year *TimeMagazine Best Book of the Year *Publishers WeeklyBest Book of the Year *Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year *School Library JournalBest Book of the Year *KirkusBest Book of the Year*New York Public Library Best Book of the Year

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. One of the most acclaimed YA novels of the year, thisNew York TimesandUSA Todaybestseller is a must-read for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo and isnow available in paperback!

The story that I thought

was my life

didnt start on the day

I was born

Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, because of a biased system hes seen as disruptive and unmotivated. 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 is convicted of a crime he didnt 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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