![]() ![]() It felt very real and natural, and certainly something that concerned parents may do. ![]() He visits the school and speaks with Miss Garcia and the school’s principal. Deja’s dad is extremely uncomfortable at first when he learns that the school is teaching his daughter about the terrorist attack. For the most part, I think the topic was handled with extreme care. Her questions and research lead her to a harder realization: a connection between her father’s anxiety and respiratory illness and the terrorist attack that caused the collapse of the towers.īefore I picked up this novel and still now that I’ve finished it, I can’t help but admire the author for tackling the topic of the September 11 attack as the basis for a middle grade story. The material covered in the classroom is gentle and oblique, but Deja feels there’s a much more gruesome truth that no one dares to tell her. As their teacher, Miss Garcia, begins a unit about history connecting to the present, the class learns about the World Trade Center towers falling on September 11, 2001. Instead, Ben, also a new kid, and Sabeen, a sweet girl who covers her hair with a scarf, become Deja’s new friends. ![]() She’s embarrassed by her family’s situation and braced for judgment from the other kids. ![]() When Deja’s family loses their home and are forced to move to a shelter, she starts fifth grade at a new school. Available JAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads ![]()
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