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All We Have Left

by Wendy Mills

Ages: 14+

Published: 2016

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books

ISBN: 978-1-61963-343-8

Keywords: Diversity, Interpersonal Relations, Islamophobia, September 11 Terrorist Attacks

The stories of Alia, trapped in the World Trade Center in 2001, and, years later, Jesse's pain of not knowing how her brother died are interwoven.