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  Title

  Punching the air

  Author

  Zoboi, Ibi Aanu  

  Publisher:

  Balzer and Bray,

  Pub date:

  [2020]

  Description:

  386 pages :

  ISBN:

  0062996487

  Item info:

  5 copies currently available - Twin Hickory Library, North Park Library, Sandston Library, Tuckahoe Library, and Fairfield Area Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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    Fairfield Area Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    YA FICTION ZOBOI	1	Teen book	Young adult fiction
    North Park Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    YA FICTION ZOBOI	1	Teen book	Young adult fiction
    Sandston Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    YA FICTION ZOBOI	1	Teen book	Young adult fiction
    Tuckahoe Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    YA FICTION ZOBOI	1	Teen book	Young adult fiction
    Twin Hickory Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    YA FICTION ZOBOI	1	Teen book	Young adult fiction

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  Punching the air
  Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
  

  Personal Author:

  Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

  Title:

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

  Publication Info:

  New York, NY : Balzer and Bray, [2020]

  Physical descrip:

  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.

  Held by:

  TWNHICKORY NORTH-PARK SANDSTON TUCKAHOE FAAREA

  Subject term:

  African American teenage boys--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  African Americans--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Artists--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Criminal justice, Administration of--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  False imprisonment--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Judicial error--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Justice--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Male prisoners--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Teenage artists--Fiction.

  Genre index term:

  Novels in verse. lcgft

  Added author:

  Pasha, Omar T.,

  Added author:

  Salaam, Yusef,