The Resource Punching the air, written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha
Punching the air, written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 386 pages
- Contents
-
- White space II
- The thinker
- Two mouths
- Blank page
- Black ink
- face painting
- Movie star
- Fan club
- Black Mona Lisa
- Picasso face
- Part I.
- Cacophony
- The last judgement
- Counting game
- Knockout game
- Ball game
- Counting game II
- The scream
- The scream II
- Refrain
- Blind justice
- Birth
- Thoghts and prayers
- Slave ship
- Family portrait
- The watch
- Ocean
- Clone
- Conversations with God
- African American
- Coming to America
- The entombment
- Old soul
- Inferno
- Processed
- Rights
- Books
- Booked
- Money
- New ID
- DNA
- Middle passage
- Coming to America II
- Courtroom
- Hope. --
- Character witness
- Gray suit
- Anger management
- White space
- Conversations with God III
- Pipeline II
- Schooled
- Schooled II
- Schooled III
- Schooled IV
- Schooled V
- Free time
- Black canvas
- Cubism
- Part II.
- Conversations with God IV
- Wallflower II
- Conversations with God V
- The open window
- Conversations with God VI
- The bridge in the rain
- Microphone
- Hype man
- Conversations with God VII
- Meditation
- America
- Guernica
- Dust
- Family portrait II
- Expressionism
- Conversations with God VIII
- White space III
- The persistence of memory
- Blind justice II
- Schooled VI
- Pipeline III
- Auction block
- Brotherhood
- Brotherhood II
- Cubism II
- Art school
- The entombment II. --
- God, the artist
- Wallflower
- Sunrise
- Pipeline
- Conversations with God II
- The entombment III
- Saint Peter in prison
- Art school II
- Harmony
- African American II
- Butterflies
- DNA II
- Conversations with God IX
- Blank canvas II
- Surrealism
- Part III.
- Brotherhood III
- Brotherhood IV
- Brotherhood V
- Conversations with God X
- Butterflies II
- Art school III
- Brotherhood VI
- Art school IV
- American graffiti
- Brotherhood VII
- Hope II
- Young Basquiat
- The persistence of memory II
- Meditation II
- Brotherhood VII
- American graffiti II
- Young Basquiat II
- Father figure
- Brotherhood IX
- Wallflower III
- Hope IV
- Hope III
- Butterflies III
- Young Basquiat III
- Hope V.
- A note from the authors
- Acknowledgments
- Lost-and-found
- Booked II
- Family portrait III
- Blank page II
- Guernica II
- Isbn
- 9780062996497
- Label
- Punching the air
- Title
- Punching the air
- Statement of responsibility
- written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha
- Subject
-
- African American teenage boys
- African American teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Artistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Artists
- Artists -- Fiction
- Artists -- Fiction
- Artists -- Juvenile fiction
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Fiction
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Juvenile fiction
- Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Discrimination in administration of criminal justice -- Fiction
- Discrimination in administration of criminal justice -- Juvenile fiction
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Fiction
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Juvenile fiction
- Erreur judiciaire -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Errors -- Fiction
- Errors -- Juvenile fiction
- False imprisonment
- False imprisonment -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Judicial error
- Judicial error -- Fiction
- Judicial error -- Juvenile fiction
- Justice
- Justice -- Fiction
- Justice -- Fiction
- Justice -- Juvenile fiction
- Justice -- Juvenile fiction
- Justice -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Juvenile works
- Male prisoners
- Male prisoners -- Fiction
- Male prisoners -- Juvenile fiction
- Noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Novels
- Novels in verse
- Novels in verse
- Novels in verse
- Prisonniers masculins -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Racism
- Racism -- Fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- Racism in criminal justice administration
- Racism in criminal justice administration -- Juvenile fiction
- Racisme -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Racisme dans l'administration de la justice pénale -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Romans en vers
- Social problem fiction
- Séquestration -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Teenage artists
- Teenage artists -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Law & Crime
- Administration of criminal justice -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
- Young adult fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Young adult works
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Novels in Verse
- Administration of criminal justice -- Juvenile fiction
- Adolescents artistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Awards note
-
- Walter Award for Teens, 2021
- Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Honor Award, 2021.
- Cataloging source
- CNWPU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- UG
- Literary form
- fiction
- PerformerNote
- Pasha, Omar T., illustrator
- Reading level
- 5.7
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1974-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Salaam, Yusef
- Pasha, Omar T.
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- African Americans
- Artists
- False imprisonment
- African American teenage boys
- Teenage artists
- Judicial error
- Male prisoners
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Racism in criminal justice administration
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Justice
- Racism
- African Americans
- Teenage boys
- Artists
- Judicial error
- Male prisoners
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Racism
- Justice
- Noirs américains
- Artistes
- Séquestration
- Adolescents artistes
- Erreur judiciaire
- Prisonniers masculins
- Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale
- Racisme dans l'administration de la justice pénale
- Justice
- Racisme
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Law & Crime
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Novels in Verse
- Racism in criminal justice administration
- Racism
- African American teenage boys
- African Americans
- Artists
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- False imprisonment
- Judicial error
- Justice
- Male prisoners
- Teenage artists
- African American teenagers
- Errors
- Discrimination in administration of criminal justice
- Administration of criminal justice
- Racism
- Justice
- African Americans
- Teenagers
- Artists
- Errors
- Discrimination in administration of criminal justice
- Administration of criminal justice
- Racism
- Justice
- Target audience
- adolescent
- Label
- Punching the air, written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- White space II
- The thinker
- Two mouths
- Blank page
- Black ink
- face painting
- Movie star
- Fan club
- Black Mona Lisa
- Picasso face
- Part I.
- Cacophony
- The last judgement
- Counting game
- Knockout game
- Ball game
- Counting game II
- The scream
- The scream II
- Refrain
- Blind justice
- Birth
- Thoghts and prayers
- Slave ship
- Family portrait
- The watch
- Ocean
- Clone
- Conversations with God
- African American
- Coming to America
- The entombment
- Old soul
- Inferno
- Processed
- Rights
- Books
- Booked
- Money
- New ID
- DNA
- Middle passage
- Coming to America II
- Courtroom
- Hope. --
- Character witness
- Gray suit
- Anger management
- White space
- Conversations with God III
- Pipeline II
- Schooled
- Schooled II
- Schooled III
- Schooled IV
- Schooled V
- Free time
- Black canvas
- Cubism
- Part II.
- Conversations with God IV
- Wallflower II
- Conversations with God V
- The open window
- Conversations with God VI
- The bridge in the rain
- Microphone
- Hype man
- Conversations with God VII
- Meditation
- America
- Guernica
- Dust
- Family portrait II
- Expressionism
- Conversations with God VIII
- White space III
- The persistence of memory
- Blind justice II
- Schooled VI
- Pipeline III
- Auction block
- Brotherhood
- Brotherhood II
- Cubism II
- Art school
- The entombment II. --
- God, the artist
- Wallflower
- Sunrise
- Pipeline
- Conversations with God II
- The entombment III
- Saint Peter in prison
- Art school II
- Harmony
- African American II
- Butterflies
- DNA II
- Conversations with God IX
- Blank canvas II
- Surrealism
- Part III.
- Brotherhood III
- Brotherhood IV
- Brotherhood V
- Conversations with God X
- Butterflies II
- Art school III
- Brotherhood VI
- Art school IV
- American graffiti
- Brotherhood VII
- Hope II
- Young Basquiat
- The persistence of memory II
- Meditation II
- Brotherhood VII
- American graffiti II
- Young Basquiat II
- Father figure
- Brotherhood IX
- Wallflower III
- Hope IV
- Hope III
- Butterflies III
- Young Basquiat III
- Hope V.
- A note from the authors
- Acknowledgments
- Lost-and-found
- Booked II
- Family portrait III
- Blank page II
- Guernica II
- Control code
- 1162850257
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062996497
- Lccn
- 2021285033
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1162850257
- Label
- Punching the air, written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- White space II
- The thinker
- Two mouths
- Blank page
- Black ink
- face painting
- Movie star
- Fan club
- Black Mona Lisa
- Picasso face
- Part I.
- Cacophony
- The last judgement
- Counting game
- Knockout game
- Ball game
- Counting game II
- The scream
- The scream II
- Refrain
- Blind justice
- Birth
- Thoghts and prayers
- Slave ship
- Family portrait
- The watch
- Ocean
- Clone
- Conversations with God
- African American
- Coming to America
- The entombment
- Old soul
- Inferno
- Processed
- Rights
- Books
- Booked
- Money
- New ID
- DNA
- Middle passage
- Coming to America II
- Courtroom
- Hope. --
- Character witness
- Gray suit
- Anger management
- White space
- Conversations with God III
- Pipeline II
- Schooled
- Schooled II
- Schooled III
- Schooled IV
- Schooled V
- Free time
- Black canvas
- Cubism
- Part II.
- Conversations with God IV
- Wallflower II
- Conversations with God V
- The open window
- Conversations with God VI
- The bridge in the rain
- Microphone
- Hype man
- Conversations with God VII
- Meditation
- America
- Guernica
- Dust
- Family portrait II
- Expressionism
- Conversations with God VIII
- White space III
- The persistence of memory
- Blind justice II
- Schooled VI
- Pipeline III
- Auction block
- Brotherhood
- Brotherhood II
- Cubism II
- Art school
- The entombment II. --
- God, the artist
- Wallflower
- Sunrise
- Pipeline
- Conversations with God II
- The entombment III
- Saint Peter in prison
- Art school II
- Harmony
- African American II
- Butterflies
- DNA II
- Conversations with God IX
- Blank canvas II
- Surrealism
- Part III.
- Brotherhood III
- Brotherhood IV
- Brotherhood V
- Conversations with God X
- Butterflies II
- Art school III
- Brotherhood VI
- Art school IV
- American graffiti
- Brotherhood VII
- Hope II
- Young Basquiat
- The persistence of memory II
- Meditation II
- Brotherhood VII
- American graffiti II
- Young Basquiat II
- Father figure
- Brotherhood IX
- Wallflower III
- Hope IV
- Hope III
- Butterflies III
- Young Basquiat III
- Hope V.
- A note from the authors
- Acknowledgments
- Lost-and-found
- Booked II
- Family portrait III
- Blank page II
- Guernica II
- Control code
- 1162850257
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062996497
- Lccn
- 2021285033
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1162850257
Subject
- African American teenage boys
- African American teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Artistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Artists
- Artists -- Fiction
- Artists -- Fiction
- Artists -- Juvenile fiction
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Fiction
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Juvenile fiction
- Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Discrimination in administration of criminal justice -- Fiction
- Discrimination in administration of criminal justice -- Juvenile fiction
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Fiction
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Juvenile fiction
- Erreur judiciaire -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Errors -- Fiction
- Errors -- Juvenile fiction
- False imprisonment
- False imprisonment -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Judicial error
- Judicial error -- Fiction
- Judicial error -- Juvenile fiction
- Justice
- Justice -- Fiction
- Justice -- Fiction
- Justice -- Juvenile fiction
- Justice -- Juvenile fiction
- Justice -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Juvenile works
- Male prisoners
- Male prisoners -- Fiction
- Male prisoners -- Juvenile fiction
- Noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Novels
- Novels in verse
- Novels in verse
- Novels in verse
- Prisonniers masculins -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Racism
- Racism -- Fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- Racism in criminal justice administration
- Racism in criminal justice administration -- Juvenile fiction
- Racisme -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Racisme dans l'administration de la justice pénale -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Romans en vers
- Social problem fiction
- Séquestration -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Teenage artists
- Teenage artists -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Law & Crime
- Administration of criminal justice -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
- Young adult fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Young adult works
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Novels in Verse
- Administration of criminal justice -- Juvenile fiction
- Adolescents artistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Genre
- Novels in verse
- Romans en vers
- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Social problem fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Young adult works
- Fiction
- Juvenile fiction
- Novels
- Juvenile works
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