It is about becoming your best self, even though you are being judged by the color of your skin and not the content of your character. It's about falling down in life and getting back up. It's about finding purpose, finding resilience. And that's really what this book is about as well. Then she said, you talk it, never stop talking. Hello Welcome back to my channelToday I am reviewing and discussing the novel Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam. You dance it, you march, you vote it, you do everything about it. And then she gives us a way to become alchemists in our own lives. It doesn't do anything to the object of his displeasure. She said bitterness is like a cancer, it eats upon the host.

Maya Angelou said you should be angry, but you must not be bitter.

That is when I look at mentors, you know, Nelson Mandela said that he had to leave anger and bitterness in the prison, because if he took it out with him, it would turn into something and destroy him. 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.Dr. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. 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. ‘Boys just being boys’ turns out to be true only when those boys are white. One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. The book is a beautifully rendered piece that delves into the disenfranchisement of young black men. 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. It tells the story of a teenage boy Amal who has been wrongfully convicted of a crime. Perfect for fans of the Noughts & Crosses series and The Hate U Give. 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. Punching the Air is a collaboration between award winning author Ibi Zoboi and Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 YOTO CARNEGIE MEDALįrom 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.

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