Punching the Air
- Author Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam
- Narrator Ethan Herisse
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 1 September 2020
- Run Time 4 hours and 28 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism.
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What to expect
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL
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. Perfect for fans of the Noughts & Crosses series and The Hate U Give.
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 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.
Critics Review
u2018Zoboi and Salaam have created nothing short of a masterwork of humanity, with lyrical arms big enough to cradle the oppressed, and metaphoric teeth sharp enough to chomp on the bitter bones of racism. This is more than a story. This is a necessary exploration of anger, and a radical reflection of love, which ultimately makes for an honest depiction of what it means to be young and Black in America.u2019 u2013 Jason Reynolds, award-winning, bestselling author of Long Way Down
u2018Punching the Air is the profound sound of humanity in verse. About a boy who uses his creative mind to overcome the creativity of racism. About a boy who uses the freedom of art to overcome his incarceration. About you. About me. Utterly indispensable.u2019 u2013 Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Stamped and How to Be an Antiracist
u2018In this beautifully rendered book, we are reminded again of how brilliant and precarious our Black Lives are and how art can ultimately heal us.u2019 u2013 Jacqueline Woodson, award-winning, bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming
nPraise for BLACK ENOUGH, edited by Ibi Zoboin
u2018A powerful collection that opens the readeru2019s eyes to the breadth and diversity of contemporary experience in Americau2019 u2013 June Sarpong, author ofu00a0Diversify
u2018A breath of fresh air . . . nuanced and necessary.u2019 u2013 Kirkus Reviewsu00a0(starred review)
u2018The stories, all worth savoring, share a celebratory outlook on black teenagers fully and courageously embracing life.u2019 u2013 Publishers Weeklyu00a0(starred review)
nPraise for AMERICAN STREET by Ibi Zoboin
u2018Self-assured, elegant and utterly captivating.u2019 u2013 The New York Times
u2018Fierce and beautiful.u2019 u2013 Booklistu00a0(starred review)
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