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

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
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Avon Free Public Library - Teen	TEEN ZOBOI, I.	Check Shelf
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Teen	YA TEEN LIFE ZOBOI	Check Shelf
Bloomfield at the Atrium	TEEN ZOBOI, I.	Check Shelf
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Teen	NUTMEG TEEN ZOBOI, I.	Storage
Bristol, Manross Branch - Young Adult	YA ZOBOI	Check Shelf
Burlington Public Library - Teen	YF ZOBOI	Check Shelf
Canton Public Library - Teen	TEEN FICTION ZOBOI	Check Shelf
Cheshire Public Library - YA	YA FICTION ZOBOI	Check Shelf
Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Teen	TEEN ZOB	Check Shelf
Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Young Adult	NUTMEG ZOBOI	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Subject	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Artists -- Fiction.
	False imprisonment -- Fiction.
	African American teenage boys -- Fiction.
	Teenage artists -- Fiction.
	Judicial error -- Fiction.
	Male prisoners -- Fiction.
	Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Fiction.
	Criminal justice, Administration of -- Fiction.
	Justice -- Fiction.
	YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism.
	YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Law & Crime.
	YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Novels in Verse.
Genre/Form	Young adult fiction
	Novels in verse.
Added Author	Salaam, Yusef, author.
	Pasha, Omar T., illustrator.
ISBN	9780062996480 (hardcover)
	0062996487 (hardcover)
	9780008422141 (pbk.)
	0008422141 (pbk.)

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