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Author:

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First large print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Pressa part of Gale, a Cengage Company,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

493 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Large type books.
African Americans--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.
Racism--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Novels in verse.

Other Authors:

Salaam, Yusef, author.
Pasha, Omar T., illustrator.

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. 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?"--Back cover.

Series:

Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection

ISBN:

1432884727
9781432884727

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1223045440

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CRPC926 -- Wellman-Scofield Library (Wellman)