Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2020)

BTSB #: P08432 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Artists - Fiction Race discrimination - Fiction Administration of criminal justice - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Novels in verse. - Fiction

Summary: Amal Shahid is an artist and a poet, but a nighttime altercation that turns tragic leaves him wrongly accused. 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?