The Stars Beneath Our Feet

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Posted on August 29, 2020

Some of the challenges of living in a city where landlords are less than responsive to basic needs such as electrical wiring are described too so that readers see how even life at home is not easy. This book is kind of all over the place. With writing that is as much raw as it is honest, Moore draws the reader into a Harlem family rampant with issues.

Lolly has a new pair of sneakers from his mostly absent dad and he’s not about to let the two older boys following him snatch them off his feet. It was the perfect book to help a young, reluctant reader connect with.

Lolly wants to avoid gang life, but it is hard to see another path. I hate that cliche (which I'd have my class discuss), but it seems apt here.It amazes me how books have a way of finding their way to you. David Barclay Moore, who is the author, also wrote Hello, Universe, another great book. There's not much of a plot, it just kind of meanders around.

As Lolly pursues an interest in architecture expressed through legos and photographs, he and his best friend are being recruited by one gang and routinely followed and attacked by another. He doesn't want to tell anyone what happened because he is afraid the bullies will think he can't man up for himself.

Lolly's life once again spirals out of control but in the end, he finds a way to make everything right and he lives his life, not that depressed about his brother's death. There's way too much dialogue that see2.5 stars. Lolly loves building with the collection of Legos he's received over the years while his best friend Vega seeks solace in his vTwelve-year-old Wallace (Lolly) Rachpaul is carrying some heavy baggage as he continues to mourn the death of his older brother Jermaine. Lolly wants to avoid gang life, but it is hard to see another path. His mum's partner brings him bags of Lego from the toy store she works in and, at the after school care programme he goes to, he gradually builds a spectacular city with the Lego.

You can view Barnes & Noble’s Privacy Policy Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. He was bred for hard work, yet he longs to run free with his human friend, Katie, on his back. Lolly has to cope with the tragic death of his brother. plants. or shown that it had negative consequences. Lolly is a heart-warming character, so honest his words sting, his voice abrupt at times and desperate at others, always seeking a way forward even in a world that seems to want to hold him back. Both Rose and Lolly are devastated. Everything is going well until he founds out that Yvonne actually stole the Lego's from her work.

We have: a dead brother, a gay mom, an absentee father, a girl with autism, legos, architecture, and gangs. Still having a creative and positive mindset. A great book can open a door and show the reader a complex world that entertains, enlightens and informs. The author has done an excellent job of capturing the sights, sounds, and feelings of this particular part of New York City in all its glories and dangers. Wallace Richpaul (nicknamed Lolly,) is a 12-year-old boy who has a mom who divorced and married another woman. (Fortunately those turn out to be a very small side plot, but I was really wondering where we were going for awhile!) Lolly lives in Harlem with his mother and her partner and he's trying to recover from the death of his older brother in a gang related incident. So, I feel like this will be an unpopular opinion, but I just was not that impressed with this book. Growing up on the mean streets of an urban area where even a trip to the bodega can mean watching one's back is never easy, something of which readers will be mindful. Lolly loves building with the collection of Legos he's received over the years while his best friend Vega seeks solace in his violin. Jermaine was part of a gang. It's an inclusive story where everyone is doing their best to survive.Books like this make me wish I taught middle school English. It reminded me of how I teach my kids to write their personal narratives-to end strongly with what Nancie Atwell calls a "so-what." We have: a dead brother, a gay mom, an absentee father, a girl with autism, legos, architecture, and gangs.

Then you'd be even more annoyed by how often teenagers do it. And somehow even with all of that stuffed in, nothing really happens. The Stars Beneath our Feet. an important and lovely story about friendship, creativity and developing healthy coping skillsThere are so many thoughts swirling around in my "little" brain about this book, I don't know where to begin my review. stockings. My heart was in my throat, waiting to see what Lolly and his friend Vega would ultimately decide about joining the gang life.

Yvonne gets arrested and Rose is tested that she has autism.

I felt like i was in his shoes through the book.

Wallace Rachpaul is a young black boy growing up in the St. Nicholas housing project of Harlem.

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