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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
Writing a book for middle schoolers that discusses 9/11 had to be difficult, but Jewell Parker Rhodes does it justice. She approaches the tragedy and events that follow with grace and honesty. This beautiful books is not only timely for the 15th anniversary, but also necessary for the generations that didn't experience that terrible day.
Great talking points about what it means to be a family, an American; what home is and growing up in our world with our history.
This sweet but thoughtful book about how a child (10 years old, but matured pre-maturely by her families destitute circumstances) learns about and copes with finding a place in her new school among new friends. I liked what it had to say about teachers, and how they TEACH, and that what and how they teach is valuable and important and have a huge impact.
I never thought about how today's kids have to LEARN about 9/11; for them, it's not even a memory. For some of the people in our book club, they were children in elementary school when it took place. I was a freshman in college and that was a long time ago! It was interesting to explore the idea of a history-altering event I had witnessed from the perspective of someone who didn't know what happened or what it meant and grew up in the world that was fundamentally different from the one I had grown up in because of that event. Yeah, sorry, hopefully you can untangle that thought.
Overall it was well done, but I thought at times it was repetitive and took too long to let the characters come to an understanding about things.
I never thought about how today's kids have to LEARN about 9/11; for them, it's not even a memory. For some of the people in our book club, they were children in elementary school when it took place. I was a freshman in college and that was a long time ago! It was interesting to explore the idea of a history-altering event I had witnessed from the perspective of someone who didn't know what happened or what it meant and grew up in the world that was fundamentally different from the one I had grown up in because of that event. Yeah, sorry, hopefully you can untangle that thought.
Overall it was well done, but I thought at times it was repetitive and took too long to let the characters come to an understanding about things.
This is such a good book!! The story of a girl knowing nothing about 9/11 being enlightened of the tragedy. Perfectly simple and full of heart.
This book deals with the topic of what happened on 9-11 in a sensitive, age-appropriate manner. It would work well for upper-elementary. The main character and her family are homeless. Some parts of it feel a bit contrived and hard to believe, like how the main character makes instant friends, and how she could somehow not know about 9-11 despite living in Brooklyn her whole life. I'm not sure how many students would pick up this book and read it, but it could work well for teaching a unit about 9-11.
Genre: realistic fiction
Grade level: 4th and up
Interesting component: the part of this book that interested me the most was that it covered a horrific part of history in a way that is appropriate for school aged children and did it in a way that they could relate to.
Grade level: 4th and up
Interesting component: the part of this book that interested me the most was that it covered a horrific part of history in a way that is appropriate for school aged children and did it in a way that they could relate to.
A powerful story about the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, especially during the current presidential election, that reminds us we are more alike than different. This story is unfolds as three fifth-graders explore this important event in history - one whose father is still suffers health issues from the devastation of being in the Twin Towers during the attack that caused his family to live in a homeless shelter, one whose father served in the military to fight against the terrorists who flew the planes into the towers, and one muslim girl. The story also was a powerful reminder to me as a teacher that my instruction in the classroom and more importantly my humanity to children matters. "A story of resilience, hope and finding yourself in a complicated world." Wonderfully told with honesty and detail, but in a way elementary school children can understand.
