5/11/2023 0 Comments Punching air book![]() ![]() 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. He's found guilty, in part because the White teen whose testimony could exonerate him lies in a coma. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. When PUNCHING THE AIR begins, Amal, a Black Muslim teen enrolled in an arts high school, is on trial for his role in a fight between a group of Black teens and a group of White teens. Punching the Air (2020) is a young adult novel in verse by award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam.The novel won a Walter Dean Myer’s Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, was a New York Times bestseller, and was awarded the New York Public Library Best Book of the Year. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. ![]()
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