This book is about two kids from different times. Brandon is a nine-year old kid from New York who's going to the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Reshmina is an eleven-year old girl from a small village in Afghanistan on September 11th, 2019. In Brandon's time, the twin towers were attacked and destroyed, including the World Trade Center, leaving him stuck in a place of either life or death. He lost his father, and was placed in the safety of another man named Richard Lowery during the attacks. They grew really close, and he was eventually adopted by Richard, since his father was killed in the attacks. Later, Brandon joined the army to find and fight who had led the attacks, and ended up staying in Afghanistan to fight back the Taliban, an Afghani group. He was part of the search the Army and the Afghan National Army was conducting in Reshmina’s village, and later, his group was killed by a Taliban bombing, leaving him the only survivor left. He took shelter in Reshmina's home, which was eventually blown up by another bombing, and she and her village were forced to seek refuge in an underground cave that would temporarily keep them safe. Both faced suffering in their own times, but know fully of the words war and destruction, and from past experiences and new ones they saw together, it shows them that no side is justified. The Al-Qaeda had led a horrendous attack, leaving several people dead, and many others injured. But when Americans arrived in Afghanistan to help fight the war against the Taliban, just as many innocent people had to live a life of terror. Brandon realized that the war he was fighting no longer had a purpose. If he stayed, he destroyed, and if he left, the Taliban would only grow in power again after all those years of fighting. This is a summary of the book “Ground Zero” by Alan Gratz.