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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This made me cry because I remember that day as a 5th grader
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Death, Mental illness
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Jewell Parker Rhodes is a brilliant writer - I'll never stop saying it.
This was undoubtedly a challenging book to write. While I don't agree with all the pro-American sentiment within it, I do think overall it succeeds at explaining the events of 9/11 at a level kids can understand without necessarily traumatizing them to do it.
This was undoubtedly a challenging book to write. While I don't agree with all the pro-American sentiment within it, I do think overall it succeeds at explaining the events of 9/11 at a level kids can understand without necessarily traumatizing them to do it.
emotional
sad
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is such a great YA book to help explain 9/11 to a generation who was not alive when it happened. It was a quick read and written in a way that connects you with the characters.
I hadn't ever really thought of how to explain it to children who were not alive during that time. Jewel lParker Rhodes tackles this tough subject in a wonderful way in her new middle grade novel, Towers Falling. The characters in this story are learning about 9/11 in their 5th grade class in Brooklyn, but their also dealing with their own issues. Ben's parents are getting divorced, and he's just moved to NYC with his mother from their ranch in Arizona. He knows about 9/11 because his father enlisted after it happened. Sabeen is Muslim, so she is very aware of the discrimination and hatred her people face as a result of the 9/11 attacks. But Deja, a young African American girl, is living in a homeless shelter. Her father has horrible headaches and panic attacks, but she doesn't know why. And she knows nothing about 9/11.
This is a story about friendship, about discovery, and about the history of America - including one of the most recent, horrific events. It's about that time during a child's life when they're finally old enough to handle the truth and about the adults who struggle with letting them learn it. I absolutely loved this book!
Writing about September 11th in this almost third hand way - reading about other kids dealing with it - was a genius way to approach these truths. Jewell wrote this book in the hopes that it would be taught in schools, and I can only hope that it will be part of the curriculum by the time my son is in 5th or 6th grade.
http://www.momsradius.com/2016/07/book-review-towers-falling-mg.html
This is a story about friendship, about discovery, and about the history of America - including one of the most recent, horrific events. It's about that time during a child's life when they're finally old enough to handle the truth and about the adults who struggle with letting them learn it. I absolutely loved this book!
Writing about September 11th in this almost third hand way - reading about other kids dealing with it - was a genius way to approach these truths. Jewell wrote this book in the hopes that it would be taught in schools, and I can only hope that it will be part of the curriculum by the time my son is in 5th or 6th grade.
http://www.momsradius.com/2016/07/book-review-towers-falling-mg.html
An important addition to fiction about 9/11 -- told in first person by Deja, a girl living with her family in a homeless shelter. Deja's parents are obviously struggling...Pop doesn't work, seems...sad all the time. Mom works all the time. And Deja watches her two younger siblings. Because of the move to the shelter, Deja must go to a new school. A progressive school. And that changes all their lives.
The school used to view the Twin Towers, now nothing but an empty skyline. The teachers decide to involve all students, including Deja's fifth grade class, in a unit of community-building, fact-finding, culminating in a study of the falling of the towers. Deja, unlike the others, knows nothing about the Towers or the events of 9/11. Nothing.
She and her friends Ben and Sabeen journey through the city, feelings of its peoples, and the courage of survivors.
The climax is touching and makes us face the fact lives will never be the same. Ever.
Jewell Parker Rhodes gives us a new, necessary view of this horrific event.
The school used to view the Twin Towers, now nothing but an empty skyline. The teachers decide to involve all students, including Deja's fifth grade class, in a unit of community-building, fact-finding, culminating in a study of the falling of the towers. Deja, unlike the others, knows nothing about the Towers or the events of 9/11. Nothing.
She and her friends Ben and Sabeen journey through the city, feelings of its peoples, and the courage of survivors.
The climax is touching and makes us face the fact lives will never be the same. Ever.
Jewell Parker Rhodes gives us a new, necessary view of this horrific event.
an easy ready to get you out of a reading slump. Educational if you do not know anything about 9/11. a page turner