![]() "Filled with hope, friendship, and grit." -Stacy McAnulty, best-selling author of The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl * “Transformative.”- Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review ![]() ![]() * "Outstanding."- School Library Journal, Starred Review before it's too late?Įxploring community, gentrification, justice, and friendship, Take Back the Block introduces an irresistible 6th grader and asks what it means to belong-to a place and a movement-and to fight for what you believe in. Wes has always been good at puzzles, and he knows there has to be a missing piece that will solve this puzzle and save the Oaks. Wes isn't about to give up the only home he's ever known. The grownups are supposed to have all the answers, but all they're doing is arguing. That-and hanging out with his crew (his best friends since little-kid days) and playing video games-is what he wants to be thinking about at the start of the school year, not the protests his parents are always dragging him to.īut when a real estate developer makes an offer to buy Kensington Oaks, the neighborhood Wes has lived his whole life, everything changes. Wes Henderson has the best style in sixth grade. Lockington, author of For Black Girls Like Meīrand-new kicks, ripped denim shorts, Supreme tee. "This book made me want to step aside, hand over the mic, and listen to Wes. ![]()
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