I had a little trouble getting into this book at first, but once I did really enjoyed following Lolly on his journey of discovery. But after two neighborhood thugs start hassling him and his freinds, will he be able to resist the temptations that Jermaine could not? But once he suddenly decides to break all his models down and build something entirely new, of his own design, he is finally able to start working through his feelings of grief and anger, and make an unexpected connection. Lolly is obsessed with Lego's, meticulously following the directions to make them exactly like the photos on the box. Lolly is having a particularly hard time because not only is he grieving, he is also dealing with anger over whatever caused the two of them to stop speaking the week of Jermain's death, and feeling guilty because of it. They are both grieving over the recent loss of Lolly's older brother, Jermaine, who was killed as a result of gang violence. Twelve-year old Wallace, or 'Lolly' as most people call him, lives in the projects in Harlem with his mom. This story had a fairly strong finish, but was a little hard to get into at first, and the author's over-use of a particular phrase was very distracting and annoying. The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Mooreģ.5 stars.

The stars beneath our feet review