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02362aam a2200325 4500 001 5870DCA0F9CC11ECB315051A2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220702010022 008 200625s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0062996495 020 $a 9780062996497 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Salaam, Yusef. $t Author. 245 1 $a Punching the air. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c 2020. 300 $a 386 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a 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. 541 $d 20220428. 586 $a Iowa High School Award Nominee 2022-2023. 650 $a Judicial error $v Young Adult Fiction. 650 4 $a Teenage artists $v Young adult fiction. 650 1 $a Novels in verse $v Young adult fiction. 650 1 $a Artists $x Young Adult Fiction. 650 24 $a Discrimination in criminal justice administration $b Young Adult Fiction. 650 $a Male prisoners $v Young Adult Fiction. 650 $a False imprisonment $v Young Adult Fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l VMPC334 $d 20221004020612.0 952 $l VTPD454 $d 20220702012826.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5870DCA0F9CC11ECB315051A2BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search