Take Back The Block

ISBN-10: 0593175204
ISBN-13: 9780593175200
Author: Giles, Chrystal D.
Interest Level: 3-7
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: July 2022

Copyright: 2021

Page Count: 256

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Interest Level

Grades 3-7

Reading Level

Lexile: 760L
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.9
Accelerated Reader Points: 7.0

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism

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Brand-new kicks, ripped denim shorts, Supreme tee -- Wes Henderson has the best style in sixth grade. 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. But when a real estate developer makes an offer to buy Kensington Oaks, the neighborhood Wes has lived his whole life, everything changes. The grownups are suppposed to have all the answers, but all they're doing is arguing. Even Wes's best friends are fighting. And some of them may be moving. Wes isn't about to give up the only home he's ever known. 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. But can he find it . . . before it's too late? Exploring 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
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