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Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
Author
Series
I survived volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.
4) Remember
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Once again, the Baxter family is touched by love and loss, including the tragic events surrounding September 11. Ashley Baxter has locked up her heart, convinced that no one--including God--could love her because of the past behavior she is trying to forget. A few highly unlikely people help her open up to love and redemption.
Language
English
Description
A gripping true story of six elite ex-military operators assigned to protect the CIA who fought back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked in the U.S. diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.
Author
Language
English
Description
Journalist and historian Garrett Graff tells the story of September 11, 2001 as it was lived, in the words of those who lived it. Drawing on transcripts, recently declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, Graff paints a vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks. Beginning in the predawn hours of airports...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
In interweaving stories of sixteen-year-olds, modern-day Jesse tries to cope with the ramifications of her brother's death on 9/11, while in 2001, Alia, a Muslim, gets trapped in one of the Twin Towers and meets a boy who changes everything for her as flames rage around them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland and its surrounding communities opened their hearts and homes to passengers on airliners bound for the United States that were forced to land in Gander when U.S. airspace was closed on September 11, 2001.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ask anyone: September 11, 2001, was serene and lovely, a perfect day-until a plane struck the World Trade Center. But right now it is a few days earlier, and four kids in different parts of the country are going about their lives. Sergio, who lives in Brooklyn, is struggling to come to terms with the absentee father he hates and the grandmother he loves. Will's father is gone, too, killed in a car accident that has left the family reeling. Naheed...
Author
Language
English
Description
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe,...
13) Eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alex Douglas always wanted to be a hero. But nothing heroic ever happened to Alex. Nothing, that is, until his eleventh birthday, (which fell on September 11, 2001). Then everything changed."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A wall went up around Alex Brady's heart when his father, a New York firefighter, died in the Twin Towers. Turning his back on the only woman he ever loved, Alex shut out all the people who cared about him to concentrate on fighting crime. He and his trusty K9 partner, Bo, are determined to eliminate evil in the world and prevent tragedies like 9-11. Then the worst fire season in California's history erupts, and Alex faces the ultimate challenge
...15) Return
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Luke and Reagan were saving themselves for marriage. But on September 10, 2001 they are swept up by passion for each other. The next day terrorists killed three thousand Americans and Luke's faith in God. He walks out on his church, on his girlfriend, and on their unborn child. Will Luke find peace as a "freethinker?" Or is he a prodigal son who has yet to return?
16) September 11
Author
Series
National Geographic Kids Readers volume Level 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The events of September 11, 2001, changed the world forever. With compelling photographs and sensitive, age-appropriate text, this Level 3 reader recounts the shocking attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania, explains who was behind the attacks, and celebrates the spirit of hope that emerged through the inspiring story of rescue and recovery and the heroes who raced to save lives. National Geographic Readers' combination...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Examines the events surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Tower in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. discussing the rise of global terrorism, retaliatory strikes on Afghanistan, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and the world-wide effects since September 11.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for a heroic World Trade Center victim, a financial manager who is suffering from amnesia struggles to relate to a family he does not remember, while his wife, believing herself a widow, is comforted by her brother-in-law.
19) What we saw
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
To coincide with the first anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001, this book includes a DVD of footage of that day's events and news reports from CBS News archives.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty-four-year-old Renata finds her settled routine shaken up by the handsome Jack, who holds the promise of romance, love, and stability, but one September morning, the couple finds their lives forever changed and the promises of the future buried in rubble.
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