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Waiting on Wednesday features Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five. Zoboi, who was a National Book Award Finalist for her debut novel, American Street teamed up with prison reform activist, Yusef Salaam. Here's the publisher synopsis:
Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’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, the authors 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.
This verse novel is due on September 1. I can't wait. That cover is amazing!
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