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Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam
4.0

This is a novel in verse co-written by one of the Exonerated Five. It is about a similarly wrongfully convicted and incarcerated teenage boy who is also an artist. It is both brilliantly written and helps fills an important gap in YA novels about incarcerated teens. I could see this prompting great discussion in a teen book club or English class.