Summary

Prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five and award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi offer a powerful YA novel in verse about a Black Muslim boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. He is a target of bias at his diverse private fine arts school where he writes poetry. An altercation in a park on the other side of the “invisible line we weren’t supposed to cross” leads to assault and battery charges which they did not commit.