"This true-life fable about a tree that survived 9/11 commemorates
the attack while evoking a resilient spirit and the healing power of
nature.
--Carole Boston Weatherford, author of Newbery Honor book BOX
"Branches of Hope is a tribute to resilience and hope, a gentle way to
talk with our youngest readers about the memory of 9/11."
--Kate Messner, author of The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's
Coral Reefs
The branches of the 9/11 Survivor Tree poked through the rubble at
Ground Zero. They were glimpses of hope in the weeks after September 11,
2001.
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** Remember and honor the events of 9/11 and celebrate how hope appears
in the midst of hardship. The Survivor Tree found at Ground Zero was
rescued, rehabilitated, and then replanted at the 9/11 Memorial site in
2011. This is its story.
In this moving tribute to a city and its people, a wordless story of a
young child accompanies the tree's history. As the tree heals, the girl
grows into an adult, and by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, she has become
a firefighter like her first-responder uncle. A life-affirming
introduction to how 9/11 affected the United States and how we recovered
together.