The latest historical fiction from Gratz focuses on Sept. 11, 2001 and the attack on the World Trade Center. Nine-year-old Brandon has been suspended from school and needs to go to work with his father, chef at Windows on the World at the top of the North Tower. Without telling his father, Brandon slips away to go to a nearby store and purchase a replacement toy for his friend, the reason he was suspended. Brandon is in an elevator when the plane hits the building, and so begins his struggle to try to get back to his father on the top floor. Reshmina lives in present day Afghanistan, in a remote village where the Taliban is active and the Americans are trying to drive them out. When an American soldier is badly injured and asks for help, as part of her Muslim religion, Reshmina cannot refuse. She leads the soldier to her home where she puts her family and entire village in danger, especially when her twin brother, Pasoon, runs off to join the Taliban and tell of the hidden American. Like some of Gratz’s other novels, these two stories on opposite sides of the world will intertwine. But how?
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