Towers Falling by Jewell Rhodes is about a fifth grader named Déja. She is starting a new school and moving into a new home. Her teacher, Miss Garcia, makes them do many assignments about their home and family. Déja learns from these assignments that she is different from her surrounding classmates. For instance, she lives at Avalon Family Residence. This is not a development, in fact, this is a shelter. Her family’s room has peeling paint, cockroaches, no water, refrigerator, or stove. Miss Garcia hints that all her assignments have to do with 9/11. Déja has never heard of 9/11 and is completely dumbfounded. So, she tries to figure out who she is and what it means to be American with her best friends Ben and Sabeen. But one of the many questions