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Title: With Their Eyes: September 11th--The View from a High School at Ground Zero by Annie Thoms ISBN: 0-06-051718-2 Publisher: HarperTempest Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: Stuyvesant High School is practically next to ground zero, so the students, teachers and staff at the New York City High School had an eyewitness seat to the World Trade Center tragedy. The school was closed and The FBI and local fire and police took over, making the school a command and communications center while the site was excavated. Stuy became famous as its inhabitants generously gave their space, their time and themselves to feed workers, donate blood and help out.
When the school finally reopened, the drama coach decided that the winter play should focus on the experiences they had been through since September, and the students did hundreds of interviews, whittling them down into poetic monologues in natural language to create an ensemble piece of 10 accounts of what happened Sept 11th and how their lives have been changed. A pregnant teacher, a school janitor, and a Muslim student are just some of the voices heard. While some entries are a bit redundant, there are truly moving moments and unique insights in every piece. One can only imagine the power this performance would have.
At once a memorial, tribute, primary source, and dramatic play, this work of literature should have a place on every library shelf. The paperback edition is more than affordable.
Side note: My young adult book group met on Oct 8, and I booktalked about 20 books for them to consider for our next 6 meetings. The kids groaned as I introduced book after book that contained murder, crime, angst and abuse. "Don't you have anything happy?" they whined. I gave them a few upbeat options, and last but not least, mentioned With Their Eyes. And FIVE out of seven voted for it! And even got excited about the idea of perhaps doing a dramatic reading (no one followed through though). I was stunned and pleased at their excitement over this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: incredible work
Comment: This is not a broad-brush, wasn't-it-awful retelling. It's a very thoughtful, direct, personal contemplation of a very scary day and the weeks that followed. The characters' speeches in the book are the real words of people at the high school -- students and adults who worked there -- who have lives and personalties beyond 9/11. I felt they were all talking to me. The choice of voices and incidents is wonderfully diverse. I keep pushing this book on friends, and we always find different things to discuss.
This one will keep you both riveted and thinking for a long time.
Rating: 5
Summary: moving
Comment: (...)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.
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Title: Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities by Anna Deavere Smith ISBN: 0385470142 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: 911: The Book of Help by Michael Cart, Marianne Carus, Marc Aronson ISBN: 0812626761 Publisher: Cricket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: September 12th: We Knew We Would Be All Right by First Grade Students of H. Byron Masterson Elementary, First Grade Students of H. Byron Masterson Elementary in Kennett Missouri ISBN: 043944246X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Understanding September 11th: Answering Questions About the Attacks on America by Mitch Frank ISBN: 0670035823 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Feed (Boston Gobe-Horn Book Honors (Awards)) by M. T. Anderson ISBN: 0763617261 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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