In 2001 Brandon is with his dad at work after getting into trouble at school, they are in the World Trade Center on the 107th floor. During a lull Brandon sneaks of to buy his friend a new toy to replace the one that got broken in the school incident. When the tower is rocked and Brandon is seperated from his only parent and teammate.
In 2019 Reshmina has only known war. Her village sees it all first hand and her brother want to become a Taliban fighter, to avenge their dead sister who was killed on her wedding day.
This book alternates between the two main character and their views on what is happening 18 years apart but brought on by the one act. This book is full of action and suspense, but is a important story not to forget but told in a way that tweens will understand. Alan Gratz has a way of taking some of the hard events in our history and bringing them out for our young readers. He tells it the way it happens but doesn't glorify war nor sugar coat why it happened. I personally thank him for that, war is not a wonderful thing to be taken lightly and he doesn't. This is a great book for tweens that were not alive in 2001.
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