Ground Zero : a novel of 9/11
2021
Book
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781338747690
- 9781338245752
- 1338245759
Edition: First edition.
Description: 304 pages : illustration, maps ; 22 cm
Target Audience Note:
- 008-012.
- Grades 4-6.
Notes: Subtitle from cover.
LCCN: 2020041442
Control Number: 3032341
Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2021.Subjects:
- Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century -- Juvenile fiction.
- Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.
- Children's stories.
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century -- Juvenile fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage boys -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage girls -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.
- World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001) -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.