On the Block
Stories of Home

Cute collection of stories about kids in the apartment building. Read by multiple narrators. #booksin25......more

Welcome to The Entrada! You’ve come home. On The Block: Stories of Home is an anthology of twelve connected vignettes, edited by author Ellen Oh, that portray the diverse families in residence at the New York apartment building known as The Entrada. Each chapter, appropriately titled by the apartment......more

A follow-up to Ellen Oh’s amazing and widely used short story collection, Flying Lessons, On the Block takes a somewhat unique and in my opinion extremely successful approach to a short story collection. Telling the stories of the wide range of multigenerational immigrant families that live in The E......more

Twelve different short stories feature a diverse cast of characters--youngsters living with their families in the Entrada, a six-story apartment building. Each protagonist faces some sort of relatable life challenge, including being misunderstood, a first crush, making friends, being heard, and even......more

Lila has just moved to the Entrada from Trinidad, her parents keep telling her that things will be better in America, she doesn't see it that way. Lenny's parents own the building, and makes the mistake of telling that to the kids, now they think he's saying he's better than them. Amira finds a stra......more