Two older boys, Harp and Gully, are hassling them, and their menacing presence escalates into an act of violence. Ali, Lolly and Big Rose, a girl with autism, begin to build “the alien metropolis of Harmonee.” Outside the safety of the rec center, life for Lolly and his best friend Vega is getting more complicated. Encouraged by the facility’s director, Mr. When Lolly’s creation outgrows his West Indian family’s Harlem apartment, he moves it to the rec center. The only thing that makes him feel better is building with Legos, and after his mother’s girlfriend, Yvonne, gives him two trash bags full of loose Legos for Christmas, he lets his imagination soar. Wallace “Lolly” Rachpaul, 12, is still reeling from the murder of his older brother, Jermaine.
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