Punching the air
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[London] : HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks, 2020.
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eBook
Language
English
ISBN
9780008422158
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Downloadable eBook.
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Fiction.
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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 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 totherefuge 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 forthetruth, in a system designed to strip him of both.
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Young adult.
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