A review by dlberglund
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin

4.0

Several middle schoolers are going about their ordinary days in early September, 2001, leading up to September 11th. They are students in different states, different lives, and they do not know each other. It's a powerful look at before and after the events and destruction of 9/11, but I don't know if it completely would make sense to the target audience. I don't think that it can really bring home the ways in which the US is different now than it was before, or how scary it was to not know what was happening. I think it would have been more powerful if the children were in some way connected, through some distant family members or a regional academic competition or....something. I'm glad that everyone in the story made it through alive (oh sorry, spoiler...but it's a middle grad novel, not YA), but not glad enough to give it 5 stars.