Ibi Zoboi

Yusef Salaam

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.

Punching the Air

Lindsay

like a few fights counts as uncontrollable rage

like everything that I am, that I’ve ever been

with her eyes blindfolded, peeking through slits

Amal Shahid to the left    Jeremy Mathis to the right

is                                is America

   the only thing I can trust     right now

it’s not a classroom, it’s a cell block

it’s not a restroom, it’s open stalls and showers

it’s not a lunchroom, it’s the mess hall

it’s not friends, it’s inmates, felons, and delinquents

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