![]() The Aquanaut by Dan Santat (Graphix 2022), Radium Girls: The Scary But True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark by Kate Moore (Sourcebooks 2020), It’s the End of the World and I’m In My Bathing Suit by Justin A. Even in 2022, Nine, Ten by Nora Raleigh Baskin and The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner are still staples of the classrooms and libraries where I work. It was comforting to know that books are always here for us. I re-read two of my favorite middle-grade books on 9/10 and 9/11. ![]() What had happened? Why? How would this affect us and our families? How would this affect the world? ![]() The entire day was surreal – some parents came to take students home, but most of us just talked about how we felt: scared, anxious, curious, even. A fellow teacher came running down the hall from the office, telling us that “someone bombed the World Trade Center.” Fear and anxiety followed, and I ran to the gym with her to find my students, who were watching TV with the gym teacher. ![]() I was teaching 5th grade and my students were in the gym. We Remember 9/11: I spent the weekend taking it easy and reflecting on the 21 years it’s been since the Twin Towers came down in New York City. ![]()
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