{"title": "Punching the Air", "covers": [10190577, 10468863], "key": "/works/OL20870887W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL7512204A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["YOUNG ADULT FICTION", "Social Themes", "Prejudice & Racism", "Law & Crime", "violence", "Poetry", "Suspense", "Young Adult Literature", "nyt:young-adult-hardcover=2020-09-20", "New York Times bestseller", "Young adult fiction, law & crime", "Young adult fiction, social themes, prejudice & racism", "Young adult fiction, novels in verse", "African Americans", "Juvenile fiction", "Artists", "False imprisonment", "African American teenage boys", "Teenage artists", "Judicial error", "Male prisoners", "Discrimination in criminal justice administration", "Administration of Criminal justice", "Justice", "Racism", "Fiction", "Teenage boys", "YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism", "YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Law & Crime", "YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Novels in Verse", "African American teenagers", "Errors", "Discrimination in administration of criminal justice", "Teenagers"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The story that I thought\r\n\r\nwas my life\r\n\r\ndidn\u2019t start on the day\r\n\r\nI was born \r\n\r\nAmal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he\u2019s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. \u201cBoys just being boys\u201d turns out to be true only when those boys are white. \r\n\r\nThe story that I think\r\n\r\nwill be my life \r\n\r\nstarts today\r\n\r\nSuddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal\u2019s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn\u2019t 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? \r\n\r\nWith 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.\r\nsource: https://www.harpercollins.ca/9780062996503/punching-the-air/"}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-06-16T20:08:13.484680"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-11T05:42:07.938689"}}