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005 20220330184617.0
008 210311s2021 nyua 000 f eng d
020 9780062996497|q(paperback)
020 0062996495|q(paperback)
035 (OCoLC)1241164179
040 YDX|beng|erda|cYDX|dBDX|dYDX|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dOCLCO|dWHP
049 WHPP
050 4 PS3626.O27|bP86 2021
050 4 PZ7.1.Z64|bPun 2021
082 04 813/.6|223
100 1 Zoboi, Ibi Aanu,|eauthor.
245 10 Punching the air /|cwritten by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam
; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha.
250 First trade paperback edition.
264 1 New York, NY :|bBalzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins
Publishers,|c2021.
300 386 pages :|billustrations ;|c21 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Nutmeg Book Award nominee, Grade 9-12 High School, 2023.
520 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.
526 0 Accelerated Reader AR|bUG|c5.7|d5|z509958.
650 0 African Americans|vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 Artists|vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 False imprisonment|vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 African American teenage boys|vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 Teenage artists|vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 Judicial error|vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 Male prisoners|vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 Discrimination in criminal justice administration
|vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 Criminal justice, Administration of|vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 Justice|vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 Racism|vJuvenile fiction.
650 7 African American teenage boys.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00799391
650 7 African Americans.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00799558
650 7 Artists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00817559
650 7 Criminal justice, Administration of.|2fast
|0(OCoLC)fst00883246
650 7 Discrimination in criminal justice administration.|2fast
|0(OCoLC)fst00895034
650 7 False imprisonment.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00920104
650 7 Judicial error.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00984666
650 7 Justice.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00985122
650 7 Male prisoners.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01006656
650 7 Racism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01086616
650 7 Teenage artists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01145360
655 7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655 7 Juvenile works.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411637
700 1 Salaam, Yusef,|d1974-|eauthor.
700 1 Pasha, Omar T.,|eillustrator.
994 C0|bWHP