Reading Level
What is the reading level of Punching the Air?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Punching the Air is 12th and 13th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
Punching the Air
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 54 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 18 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 8 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 12 |
Reading Time
2 hrs 47 mins
How long to read Punching the Air?
The estimated word count of Punching the Air is 41,695 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 2 hrs 47 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 4 hrs 38 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 1 hrs 33 mins.
| Punching the Air - 41,695 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 4 hrs 38 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 2 hrs 47 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 1 hrs 33 mins |
- Authors
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Ibi ZoboiYusef Salaam
More about Punching the Air
41,695 words
Word Count
for Punching the Air
400 pages
Pages
4 hours and 29 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
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 Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo. The story that I thought was my life didn’t start on the day I was born Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I think will be my life starts today 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, 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.