Download Punching the Air PDF
2020
Title | Punching the Air |
---|---|
Authors | Ibi Zoboi |
Genres | Children's Fiction |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Limited |
ISBN | 9780062996480 |
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. Perfect for fans of the Noughts & Crosses series and The Hate U Give.The story that I thoughtwas my lifedidn't start on the dayI was bornAmal 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 thinkwill be my lifestarts todaySuddenly, 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 itWith 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.
More Books You May Like
Expecting Better
A groundbreaking guide to pregnancy: empowers women with the facts and allows them to make their own decisions. FREAKANO...
Her Last Goodbye by Rick Mofina
Family ties run deep. Family secrets run deeper. Perfect wife. Doting mom. Jennifer Griffin was loved by everyone, incl...
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer
Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2021From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspirac...
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
WHAT IF HILLARY RODHAM HAD TURNED DOWN BILL CLINTON'S PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE? 'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what the...
Screw It, Let's Do it
Throughout my life I have achieved many remarkable things. In Screw It, Let's Do It, I will share with you my ideas and ...
The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
'A subtle, moving celebration of place and connectedness . . . The Grassling brings the sounds, smells and sights of the...