Punching the air
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
4 audio discs (4 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
[New York] : HarperCollins, [2020]
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.
Call Number
YA CD ZOBOI
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9781799940371 9781799940388
Punching the air
Author
Format:
Sound recording
Physical Description
1 audio media player (approximately 4 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Production / Publication Information
Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2020]
Summary
Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even his diverse art school, because of a biased system he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated. Then, one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy.
Call Number
MWF-PLAY YA F ZOBOI
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9781662260735
Punching the air
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
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.
Call Number
Y ZOB
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780062996480 9780008422141 9780062996497
Punching the air
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
493 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Edition
First large print edition.
Production / Publication Information
Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020.
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.
Call Number
FIC ZOB YA
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9781432884727
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