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Book ReviewsWith Their Eyes: September 11th--The View from a High School at Ground Zero |
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Book: With Their Eyes: September 11th--The View from a High School at Ground Zero
Written by: Annie Thoms |
Publisher: HarperTempest
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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5 / 5
(...)I read the whole thing in under an hour. I realize I'm a little biased, but this book is absolutely amazing. A lot of the 9/11 accounts you hear are sappy and formulaic, people talking about how their lives will never be the same, blah blah blah. But these accounts are real and candid. The monologues cover the entire spectrum of Stuy students, faculty and staff. You experience the day and its effects from many perspectives. Though sometimes it reads a little slowly - there's a lot of "like" and "ummm" - you can almost forgive it because you realize that these are real people expressing their thoughts on a very intense day...and sometimes the words don't come so easily. I recommend it to everyone, in particular, adolescents, because they will have the easiest time relating to the stories of the students.
With Their Eyes-9-11
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3 / 5
WITH THEIR EYES edited by ANNIE THOMAS was a good book about September 11th. Some of the author were students, teachers,and people who work at Stuyvesant High School,two blocks away from the Twin Towers.Some of the reaction were sadness, crazy with fear,and some student were not beleiveing it was happening to the TWIN TOWERS. If you want to know the rest of the book, you have to read the book.
I Thought Today Would be LIke all The Others
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5 / 5
This is an amazing book it is made up of poems by children who were in a school at ground zero, on September 11, 2001. The day that all Americans will never forget, stuck with so much emotion and heart break. This is how they are dealing with the loss of family, friends, and people they never thought would die this way. Together this put brilliance, tears, heart break, smiles that it's over for now, and poems that act as therapy.
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