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Zoboi, Ibi.
PUNCHING THE AIR
New York, NY : Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020
IL YA
ISBN 9780062996480
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 Despite his talent as an artist and poet, Amal Shahid is seen as nothing but trouble at his art school. When he is only sixteen years old, his future is drastically altered after he is convicted for a crime he didn’t commit and is sent to prison. Amal could let the despair he feels at his situation drown him or he could try and change it. He decides to do just that, using his art and his words as the medium. This novel-in-verse is a captivating coming-of-age story that addresses racial discrimination but is ultimately about the fight to exist in a world that is constantly against him.  (Georgia Peach Book Award, 2022)

SUBJECTS:   African Americans -- Fiction.
                        Teenage boys -- Fiction.
                        Artists -- Fiction.
                        Judicial error -- Fiction.
                        Male prisoners -- Fiction.
                        Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Fiction.
                        Criminal justice, Administration of -- Fiction.
                        Racism -- Fiction.
                        Justice -- Fiction.

 
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