![]() 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. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. The novel won a Walter Dean Myer’s Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, was a New York Times bestseller, and was awarded the New York Public Library Best Book of the Year. 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. Punching the Air (2020) is a young adult novel in verse by award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. ![]() ![]() But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. This Study Guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Punching the Air. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. Punching the Air - Chapters 1 - 42 Summary & Analysis. Punching the Air a book by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam 25,506,194.09 raised for local bookstores Punching the Air Ibi Zoboi (Author) Yusef Salaam (Author) FORMAT Paperback 12.99 12.08 Hardcover 19.99 18.59 Compact Disc 25. ![]()
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