On Sale Date:June 28th 2016
Pages: 208
Age Range:Middle Grade
September 11 started for everyone like a normal, sunny day, until a plane hit the World Trade Center. The story of Nine, Ten starts a few days earlier. Four kids in different parts of the USA are going on about their lives. Sergio lives at his grandmother's house as his parents are out of the picture. One day his father shows up as Sergio has won a price in school with a contest, claiming he has the right to it too. Sergio runs away from home, and accidentally becomes a hero.Will is living with his mom in Shanksville. His father was killed in a car accident while he was trying to help somebody else, they are still trying to cope with this tragic loss.Nadira is muslim, and she has never had a problem with that, but at school, kids start to act weird because she wears a headscarf. Amy is sad because her mother has to leave again for work to New York, and she has to go to a new school.
And then it happens. Nadira is at school when a teacher points to the burning tower that was hit first. Will is with a friend playing outside on their bikes when he sees flight 93 flying low and out of control over the town. Amy's mother was planned to be at a meeting at the World Trade Center, but at the last minute, doesn't go because Amy tells her on the phone she misses her so much, and they just talk. And this saves her mother's life.
All the kids are at the memorial a year later, they never know each other but the author has written it in such a beautiful way that as a reader you really get to know the characters. It was just very moving to read about them, all of them where great in their own way. All of them were little heroes in their own lifes.
Altough this is a story about 9/11, it is never too heavy and certainly not for the age it is aimed at, middle grade readers. It is just a captivating read and I think young and older readers will certainly like this moving book!
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