Punching the air
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Publisher:
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date:
[2020]
Edition:
First edition
Language:
English
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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. 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?
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ISBN:
9780062996480
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African American teenage boys -- Fiction
African Americans -- Fiction
Artists -- Fiction
False imprisonment -- Fiction
Novels in verse
Racism -- Fiction
Young adult fiction
African Americans -- Fiction
Artists -- Fiction
False imprisonment -- Fiction
Novels in verse
Racism -- Fiction
Young adult fiction
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African American teenage boys
African Americans
Artists
False imprisonment
Racism
African Americans
Artists
False imprisonment
Racism
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