Thirteen-year-old Wendy, grieving the death of her mother in the collapse of the World Trade Center, is taken to live with her father in California where she learns important life lessons from a variety of people before returning home to her stepfather and brother, where she feels she truly belongs.
year: 2003, 2004
call number/section: 1000
subjects: fathers and daughters, fiction, teenage girls, september 11 terrorist attacks, 2001, father-daughter relationship, loss (psychology), brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction, california, mothers, death
Editions
Maynard, Joyce
St. Martin's Press (2003)
A novel about a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself living with her father, across the country from her native Brooklyn, coping with her mother's violent death in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Schools: 2
Maynard, Joyce
St. Martin's Griffin (2004)
Thirteen-year-old Wendy, grieving the death of her mother in the collapse of the World Trade Center, is taken to live with her father in California where she learns important life lessons from a variety of people before returning home to her stepfather and brother, where she feels she truly belongs.
Schools: 5