life_full_ofbooks 's review for:

Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes

3.0

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I wanted to like this book, I really did, but from the very beginning I just couldn’t. 

I loved that this is meant to explain Sept. 11th on a child’s level, but I found the main character, Deja, to be beyond annoying. She reminded me so much of Junie B. Jones who is my least favorite children’s fictional character. 

I felt like this told the facts in the most round about way, but at the same time I loved that it’s broken down into smaller chunks to make handling the facts easier. There are clear descriptions of the planes hitting the towers, the towers falling, and the memorial built in the footprints. 

I listened to this and I think that’s part of what I hated. It’s narrated by the author and she gives off such a Junie B. vibe, hence my earlier comment. It was so annoying it greatly detracted from the actual story. This would have been a much better audiobook had the narrator either been a child or had a child like voice. 

That being said, with September 11, coming up this is a great book to read and discuss with children who might not know exactly what took place on the day all of America came together and cried.