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Punching the air / written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062996480
- ISBN: 0062996487
- ISBN: 9780008422141
- ISBN: 0008422141
- ISBN: 9780780488007
- ISBN: 9780800003487
- Physical Description: 386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Publisher,publishing date, binding, and paging may vary. |
| Target Audience Note: | NP Lexile Young adult |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 5 509958. |
| Awards Note: | Gateway Readers Award nominee, 2022-2023. |
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| Genre: | Young adult fiction. Novels in verse. |
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| Cass County Library-Archie | YA ZOB 2020 (Text) | 0002205489731 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Drexel | YA ZOB 2020 (Text) | 0002205489749 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Garden City | YA ZOB 2020 (Text) | 0002205489756 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Harrisonville | YA ZOB 2020 (Text) | 0002205489764 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Harrisonville | YA ZOB 2020 (Text) | 0002205489772 | Young Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/09/2024 |
| Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | YA ZOB 2020 (Text) | 0002205489780 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | YA ZOB 2020 (Text) | 0002205668730 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Pleasant Hill | YA ZOB 2020 (Text) | 0002205489798 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Adair County Public Library | TEEN F Zoboi (Text) | 34029002524667 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
| Barry Lawrence - Aurora Library | Y FIC ZOB (Text) | 37884103300616 | Teen | Available | - |
| Barry Lawrence - Cassville Library | Y FIC ZOB (Text) | 37884103300608 | Teen | Available | - |
| Barry Lawrence - Monett Library | Y FIC ZOB (Text) | 37884103300582 | Teen | Available | - |
| Barry Lawrence - Mt. Vernon Library | Y FIC ZOB (Text) | 37884103300574 | Teen | Available | - |
| Barry Lawrence - Pierce City Library | Y FIC ZOB (Text) | 37884103300566 | Teen | Available | - |
| Brookfield Public Library | YA ZOB (Text) | 32512909419323 | Young Adult | Available | - |
| Camden County Library District - Osage Beach | YA FIC ZOBOI (Text) | 31320003757379 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cape Girardeau Public Library | ZOB (Text) | 33042004708445 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
| Carrollton Public Library | FIC I ZOB (Text)
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| Carrollton Public Library | FIC I ZOB (Text) | 30183000060158 | YA Fiction Books | Storage | - |
| Carthage Public Library | YA Zoboi, Ibi (Text) | 34MO2001811565 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Caruthersville Public Library | YA ZOB (Text) | 38417100542184 | Young Adult | Available | - |
| Cedar County - Stockton | Y FIC ZOB (Text) | 3482700075945 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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| Heartland Regional Library - Belle | YA F ZOB (Text)
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| Howard County Public Library | YA/Zob (Text) | 34658000222732 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
| Jefferson County Library-Arnold | TF REAL ZOBOI (Text) | 30061060069420 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
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| Lebanon-Laclede County Library | YA Zoboi (Text) | 3803717353 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
| Little Dixie - Huntsville | YA ZOBOI (Text) | 2004499680 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
| Little Dixie - Madison | YA ZOBOI (Text)
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| Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | YA ZOBOI (Text)
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| Little Dixie - Paris | YA ZOBOI (Text) | 2004499672 | Gateway Award Nominee | Available | - |
| Livingston - Lillian DesMarias Youth Library | YA Zoboi (Text) | 260185930+ | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
| Marshall Public Library | YAF GEN ZOB (Text) | 33391000189659 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
| Montgomery City Public Library | YAF ZOB (Text) | 31927000028328 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
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| Nevada Public Library | YA FIC ZOB (Text) | 32770114572324 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| North Kansas City Public Library | YA FICTION ZOBOI 2020 (Text) | 0001002372835 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
| Poplar Bluff - Main Library | YA FIC ZOBOI (Text) | 38420101716419 | FICTION (YA) | Available | - |
| Pulaski County Library-Crocker | YA FIC Zob (Text) | 33642000713206 | YA Award Books | Available | - |
| Pulaski County Library-Richland | YA FIC Zob (Text) | 33642000713214 | YA Award Books | Available | - |
| Pulaski County Library-Waynesville | YA ZOB (Text) | 33642000679506 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
| Ray County Library | YA F ZOB (Text) | 2901855698 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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| Scenic Regional-Hermann | YA FIC ZOB (Text) | 3007100305 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
