jwinchell 's review for:

Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes

4.0

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I didn't have it in me to read every word of this middle grades/late elementary novel about 9-11. Maybe it was the purported "teachability" - explicit references to history, relationships, engineering... it felt less like literature and more like a CCCS-contrived text. But there's a lot of value here, hence my higher stars. It is a modern phenomenon that our young people were not alive for this American tragedy that ricochets into life today, and Rhodes does an admirable job with inclusivity and speaking directly to her audience.