eboc2024 's review for:

Ground Zero by Alan Gratz

5.0

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Alan Gratz is a skillful storyteller, and now I know why he gets reluctant readers excited to read. I couldn’t put this book down. He managed to show the complexity of our world before, and since, 9/11/01, both for the United States and Afghanistan. Two brave and resourceful protagonists (a 9-year-old Latino-American witnessing the horror of the Twin Towers coming down firsthand, and an 11-year-old Afghani girl whose village is in a war zone between the Taliban and US soldiers in 2019) lead us through the narrative in alternating chapters. So good!