Punching the air
Zoboi, Ibi Aanu2020
Book
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Suddenly, at just 16 years old, Amal Shahid'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?
Main title:
Punching the air / written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha.
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Imprint:
London : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2020.
Collation:
386 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Audience:
Adolescent.
ISBN:
9780008422141 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6FFICTION
Local class:
FYAFIC/ZOB 13+ YEARS
Language:
English
BRN:
2988002