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. One fateful night, ...an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. 'Boys just being boys' turns out to be true only when those boys are white. 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. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? 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.
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| ISBN |
9780008422141 |
| Released NZ |
2 Sep 2020 |
| Publisher |
HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format |
Paperback |
| Alternate Format(s) |
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| Availability |
Internationally sourced (OOS locally); ships 6-14 working days
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Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
13+ years |
| Reading Age |
13+ years |
| Library of Congress |
African Americans - Fiction |
| NBS Text |
Young Adult Fiction |
| ONIX Text |
Young adult |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
Praise for BLACK ENOUGH, edited by Ibi Zoboi 'A powerful collection that opens the reader's eyes to the breadth and diversity of contemporary experience in America' - June Sarpong, author of DIVERSIFY 'A breath of fresh air . . . nuanced and necessary.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'The stories, all worth savoring, share a celebratory outlook on black teenagers fully and courageously embracing life.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for AMERICAN STREET by Ibi Zoboi 'Self-assured, elegant and utterly captivating.' - The New York Times 'Fierce and beautiful.' - Booklist (starred review) |
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Author's Bio
Ibi Zoboi was born in Haiti, and holds an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Book Review, and The Rumpus, among others. She is the author of American Street, a US National Book Award finalist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and three children. You can find her online at www.ibizoboi.net.
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