📖Recommend for Grades 7 and up📖
by
Julie Buxbaum
Abbi Hope Goldstein and Noah Stern
may not remember the events of September 11, 2001, but their lives were forever
altered by the day’s events. Abbi is the famous Baby Hope the one-year-old
photographed with the crown and the balloon being rushed to safety on that day.
Almost everywhere she goes people recognize her (thanks to numerous stories
that appear about her still) and she hopes that being a counselor at a camp
miles away will give her some anonymity. Low and behold Noah, who goes to her
school, is also a counselor and recognizes Abbi right away. Noah believes his
father who is one of the unnamed individuals in the famous Baby Hope photo, is
still alive and didn’t die that day like everyone believes. He also believes Abbi
is the key to finding out the truth. Noah and Abbi make a deal: Noah will not
share Abbi’s secret if she will help him get in touch with the known photo
survivors.
A captivating look at the lives of
two teens too young to remember the tragic day but whose lives are forever effected
by it. While the Baby Hope photo and this story are fictional, the events of
that day and some of the photos discussed are real. Some people, like Abbi’s
parents, do have stories where they worked in the towers but just happened to
not be there when the planes hit. Both Noah and Abbi are intriguing characters
and their individual and combined stories are real page turners.
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