<b><b><b>“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."</b><br><b>—Carole Boston Weatherford, author of Newbery Honor book <i>BOX</i></b><br><br>“<i>Branches of Hope</i> is a tribute to resilience and hope, a gentle way to talk with our youngest readers about the memory of 9/11.”</b><br><b>—Kate Messner, author of <i>The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World''s Coral Reefs</i></b><br></b><br><b>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.</b><br><b><br></b> 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.<br><br>In this moving tribute to a city and its people, a wordless story of