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Punching the Air

Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi

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#2137 of 8,085 books · #179 in Young Adult

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2020).

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. 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.

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ISBN-13
9798855142037
Topics
Wrongful conviction and racial injusticeArt and poetry as survivalComing of age in the criminal justice system

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