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

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062996480
  • 0062996487
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PZ7.1 .Z64 Pun 2020
Summary: 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. 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?
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
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PZ7.1 .Y66 SU 2016 The sun is also a star / PZ7.1 .Y6795 He 2022 Healer of the water monster / PZ7.1 .Y7 Ho 2021 How do you live? / PZ7.1 .Z64 Pun 2020 Punching the air / PZ7.1 .Z64 Am 2017 American Street / PZ7.5 .A35 Po 2018 The poet X : a novel / PZ7.5 .A44 CR 2014 The crossover /

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. 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?

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