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Towers Falling
Reader Score
80%
80% of readers
recommend this book
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, Dèja 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Publish Date: Apr 17th, 2018
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.60in - 5.30in - 0.80in - 0.44lb
- EAN: 9780316262217
- Recommended age: 08-12
- Categories: • Historical - United States - 21st Century• Social Themes - Friendship• Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism
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Teacher-Librarian. Mom. Advocate.
@misskubelik Recs: Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes, Rita Williams-Garcia, Alan Gratz (I'm sure you already have them all), Dean Hughes (mostly WWII though), Kimberly Bradley Brubaker, Jennifer Nielsen are the most popular MG/young YA-ish at my school.
Praise for this book
Ninth Ward was named a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book, a Notable Book for a Global Society, a CCBC Choices pick, a VOYA Top Shelf Fiction pick, an ALSC Notable Children's Book, an SLJ Best Book of the Year, an IndieBound Kids' Next List pick, a Parents' Choice Gold Award recipient, and an NYPL Top 100 Title for Reading & Sharing.
Sugar was a Junior Library Guild selection, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, an IndieBound Kids' Next List pick, a Jane Addams Book Award winner, an IRA Top Chapter Books selection, and a CCBC Choices Pick.
Bayou Magic was an LA Times summer reading selection and a Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books selection.
Towers Falling was an Indiebound Kids' Next List selection, a Junior Library Guild selection, one of Amazon's Best Books of the Month, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, a Seventeen Magazine Best Book of the Year, and a Notable Book for a Global Society.
"History made personal--and what a person! Deja's voice is real and memorable, her compelling story one of hope unmarred by sentimentality."
--Linda Sue Park, Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author
--Kirkus Reviews
--Publishers Weekly