Punching the air
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Punching the air
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The work Punching the air represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Punching the air
- Statement of responsibility
- written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. 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? A 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
- Cataloging source
- CNWPU
- Dewey number
-
- [Fic]
- 813.6
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ7.1.Z64
- LC item number
- Pun 2020
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adolescent
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