Author: Anthony D. Robles
Publisher: Children’s Book Press
Keywords: hotel, makibaka, lakas, ang
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-02-23
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0892392134
ISBN-13: 9780892392131

When Lakas strolls through his neighborhood one sunny afternoon, the last thing he expects to find is a group of tap-dancing, drum-beating, karaoke-singing new friends. But his friends face a crisis: their home, the Hotel Makibaka, is about to be sold. They must pack their belongings and leave in 30 days. But in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, where is there to go? Their rollicking protest against eviction becomes a clarion call to the community, but is it enough to save the Makibaka? Carl Angel’s effervescent paintings vibrate with the rich urban rhythms of city life in this second coll