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Interested in paddy, plantain, tapioca etc and not in apple cultivation. Every morning or whenever I’m hungry, I would climb on it, pluck one 51-59.When I was a toddler, I dreamt of having an apple tree in courtyard of (2008), "Did the Bombs Just Fall from the Sky? Examining Agency in a Text Set of World War II Children’s Literature", Social Studies Research and Practice, Vol. Grappling with these kinds of questions can engender critical reading practices of which readers can more actively enact their own agency as readers of history and as citizens in a democracy. To support teachers and students toward investigations of how authors use nominalization and passivization to construct historical events in different ways, five guiding questions about agency are presented. As it dove, he looked behind him and saw everyone had already jumped out with parachutes. His journal told a story of his crash landing his B-17, trying to save the crew. Nominalization refers to an author’s use of verbs as nouns, and passivization refers to an author’s use of passive verbs without the presence of agents. My grandfather flew a B-17 flying fortress in WWII and was later a reserve pilot for the Enola Gay. Analysis of this text set reveals the ways agency is mostly absent, displaced, or obscured through the grammatical devices of nominalization and passivization. This article examines the ways in which the authors of a text set of children’s literature constructed the United States government’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.