so good
Towers Falling
By Jewell Parker Rhodes
From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks.
When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window, Deja can't help but feel confused. She sets off on a journey of discovery, with new friends Ben and Sabeen by her side. But just as she gets closer to answering big questions about who she is, what America means, and how communities can grow (and heal), she uncovers new questions, too. Like, why does Pop get so angry when she brings up anything about the towers?
Award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes tells a powerful story about young people who weren't alive to witness this defining moment in history, but begin to realize how much it colors their every day.
When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window, Deja can't help but feel confused. She sets off on a journey of discovery, with new friends Ben and Sabeen by her side. But just as she gets closer to answering big questions about who she is, what America means, and how communities can grow (and heal), she uncovers new questions, too. Like, why does Pop get so angry when she brings up anything about the towers?
Award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes tells a powerful story about young people who weren't alive to witness this defining moment in history, but begin to realize how much it colors their every day.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9780316262217
ISBN-10: 0316262218
Published on 4/3/2018
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
Book Reviews (9)
Towers Falling is about Deja and 9/11. She made two friends Ben and Sabeen. Deja's dad has been sick and could not work because he was at the twin tower at the time it fell and he go sick from it.
This is about the twin towers and it is a science fictional story. I recommend it.
SPOILER ALERT!!! THis book is about a girl named Deja who lives with her siblings Raymond and Leda and her parents, Pop who never seems to get better and is scary when he`s mad and Ma in Avalon Family Residence which seems nice, but it isn`t. Everyone at Deja`s new school seems to know about 9/11 except Deja, besides the fact that she`s lived in Brooklyn basically her whole life. At her old school nobody wanted to be friends with Deja because her family is homeless so she is suprised when Sabeen and Ben want to be her friends. When Deja goes over to Ben`s house he shows her a video of 9/11. Oh, how did Deja never know about it. After some investigating, (looking through an old suitcase) Deja finds that her father survived 9/11. She`s shocked, how did she never put the pieces together before?
I think that the book is good
I think it is a wonderful book because it tells you about the past and how it affected people. It also teaches you about 9/11 and the information about and tells you why it is important.
I think it is a good book because it tells you about the past and how it effected people.
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I loved this book. It got nominated for The Rhode Island childerens book author award this year. It might be the book I nominate
Jewell Parker Rhodes is an amazing author. If you like historical fiction books then you would love this book. It really opens your eyes and helps you understand more of what it was like to be there and experience how horrible those times actually were. It also makes you feel sorry for those people who were apart of it or who had loved ones that were killed in it. The Twin Towers will always be a big and important part of history.