Research Catalog

Title

Punching the air / written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha.

Author

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

Publication

• New York, NY : Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Salaam, Yusef
• Pasha, Omar T.

Description

386 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

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.

Subject

• African Americans > Juvenile fiction
• Artists > Juvenile fiction
• False imprisonment > Juvenile fiction
• African American teenage boys > Juvenile fiction
• Teenage artists > Juvenile fiction
• Judicial error > Juvenile fiction
• Male prisoners > Juvenile fiction
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Juvenile fiction
• Criminal justice, Administration of > Juvenile fiction
• Justice > Juvenile fiction
• Racism > Juvenile fiction
• 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

Genre/Form

• Juvenile works.
• Fiction.
• Novels in verse.
• Young adult works.

Contents

• Part I. Birth -- Old soul -- Courtroom -- Character witness -- Gray suit -- Anger management -- White space -- White space II -- The thinker -- Two mouths -- Blank page -- Black ink -- face painting -- Movie star -- Fan club -- Black Mona Lisa -- Picasso face -- Cacophony -- The last judgement -- Counting game -- Knockout game -- Ball game -- Counting game II -- The scream -- The scream II -- Refrain -- Blind justice -- Thoghts and prayers -- Slave ship -- Family portrait -- The watch -- Ocean -- Clone -- Conversations with God -- African American -- Coming to America -- The entombment -- Inferno -- Processed -- Rights -- Books -- Booked -- Money -- New ID -- DNA -- Middle passage -- Coming to America II -- Hope. --
• Part II. America -- Auction block -- God, the artist -- Wallflower -- Sunrise -- Pipeline -- Conversations with God II -- Conversations with God III -- Pipeline II -- Schooled -- Schooled II -- Schooled III -- Schooled IV -- Schooled V -- Free time -- Black canvas -- Cubism -- 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 -- Guernica -- Dust -- Family portrait II -- Expressionism -- Conversations with God VIII -- White space III -- The persistence of memory -- Blind justice II -- Schooled VI -- Pipeline III -- Brotherhood -- Brotherhood II -- Cubism II -- Art school -- The entombment II. --
• Part III. Hope II -- Hope III -- Lost-and-found -- Booked II -- Family portrait III -- Blank page II -- Guernica 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 -- Brotherhood III -- Brotherhood IV -- Brotherhood V -- Conversations with God X -- Butterflies II -- Art school III -- Brotherhood VI -- Art school IV -- American graffiti -- Brotherhood VII -- 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 -- Butterflies III -- Young Basquiat III -- Hope V. -- A note from the authors -- Acknowledgments.

Call Number

Sc D 21-437

ISBN

• 9780062996480
• 0062996487

LCCN

2021285033

OCLC

1162850257

Author

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu, author.

Title

Punching the air / written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha.

Publisher

New York, NY : Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Performer

Pasha, Omar T., illustrator.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Salaam, Yusef, author.

Pasha, Omar T., illustrator.

Research Call Number

Sc D 21-437