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Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Rhodes, J. P. (2016). Towers falling. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.
Deja Barnes is about learn why September is an important month in American history, as well as her own. Growing up in Brooklyn New York is a struggle every day and Deja just wants things to be good again. New school, new friends, and new connections bring questions to Deja’s life as well as answers. Deja Barnes goes on an extraordinary discovery of what it means to be a family and an American.
I would ask students the following five questions:
1) What does being an American mean to you?
2) What is home to you?
3) How can you learn through life experinces?
4) What do you know about September 11, 2001?
5) How do you think America changed after September 11, 2001?