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Towers falling

"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--Provided by publisher.

Main Author:	Rhodes, Jewell Parker (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Homeless persons > Juvenile fiction. Dysfunctional families > Juvenile fiction. Schools > Juvenile fiction.

Summary:	"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:	228 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN:	9780316262224 0316262226
Author Notes:	Jewell Parker Rhodes is an award-winning author. Her books include Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass' Women, Season, Moon, Hurricane, and the children's book, Ninth Ward. She is also the author of the writing guides Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction. Her work has been published in Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and reproduced in audio and for NPR's "Selected Shorts." Rhodes honors include: the American Book Award, the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Outstanding Writing, and two Arizona Book Awards. Rhodes is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and Artistic Director of Piper Global Engagement at Arizona State University. (Bowker Author Biography)

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