Punching the Air opens with the main character, Amal Shahid, being convicted for a crime that he didn’t commit when he was 16. Authors Ibi Zoboi and Yusuf Salaam passionately write about the ways Amal...

Reading Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusuf Salaam was an intense experience. Punching the Air follows Amal Shahid, who is convicted of a violent crime he didn’t commit at sixteen. An artist and...