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Towers Falling
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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.