Punching the Air (Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam)

Sixteen-year-old Amal Shahid is an artist. But even at his liberal school, he encounters resistance from a system that sees any deviation from the norms as bad. When Amal is wrongfully incarcerated, blamed for a crime he did not commit, he tries to hold on to his art, to survive in a place that seems hell-bent on making him the villain at every turn.