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Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes

4.0

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Picked up this lovely, touching work from the “Staff Recommends” shelf at the library. And I, in turn, recommend it to all my teacher friends in the middle grades who are interested in introducing their students to a tough subject in an honest, empathy-driven way. The story focuses on Deja, a homeless girl in Brooklyn living at a shelter with her family, and follows her into a new school, new friends (a boy whose father is a Marine who volunteered after 9/11 and a girl whose Muslim family came to the US from Turkey), and a new lesson about the events on Sept. 11 that shed light on her connection to “home” and her own father’s PTSD. You’ll cry, you’ll laugh, you’ll learn.