![]() ![]() Amal, a gifted artist and poet attending a prestigious fine arts high school, has his life turned upside down when a nighttime park confrontation leaves a white kid from the other side “of that invisible line/ we weren’t supposed to cross” in a coma, and Amal and his four friends on the hook for assault and battery they did not commit. ![]() The authors craft a powerful indictment of institutional racism and mass incarceration through the imagined experience of Amal, a Black, Muslim 16-year-old facing imprisonment. From award-wining bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and Prison Reform Activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes an essential novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. ![]()
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