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Punching the Air

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By (author): Ibi Zoboi Yusef Salaam

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL

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.

One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. Boys just being boys turns out to be true only when those boys are white.

Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal Shahids bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didnt 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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 350g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Sep 2020
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 12+
  • ISBN13: 9780008422141

About Ibi ZoboiYusef Salaam

Dr. Yusef Salaam was just fifteen when he was wrongly convicted in the Central Park jogger case along with four other boys now known as the Exonerated Five. In 2002 after the young men spent years behind bars their sentences were overturned and they were fully exonerated. Their story has been documented in award-winning film The Central Park Five and acclaimed Netflix series When They See Us. Yusef is now a poet activist and inspirational speaker who lives in Atlanta GA. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Barack Obama among other honors. www.yusefspeaks.com. Ibi Zoboi holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her novel American Street was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of Pride and My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich a New York Times bestseller. She is the editor of the anthology Black Enough. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City she now lives in New Jersey. www.ibizoboi.net

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