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What were the Twin Towers?
by Jim O'Connor
When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architectural wonder. At 1,368 feet, they clocked in as the tallest buildings in the world and changed the New York City skyline dramatically. Offices and corporations moved into the towers—also known as the World Trade Center—and the buildings were seen as the economic hub of the world. But on September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack toppled the towers and changed our nation forever. Discover the whole story of the Twin Towers—from their ambitious construction to their tragic end.
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Fireboat : the heroic adventures of the John J. Harvey
by Maira Kalman
Offers the true story of this historic fireboat that was pulled from its retirement on the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center in order to assist firefighters tending to the massive blaze and, with a few adjustments, succeeded in completing its mission. An ALA Notable Book.
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Ground Zero
by Nancy Louis
Describes the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New York City, in which two airplanes were crashed into the World Trade Center, and the rescue and recovery work that occurred afterwards
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The Twin Towers
by David Abbott
Describes how the famous Twin Towers of New York City's World Trade Center were targeted by suicide terrorists on September 11, 2001, and looks at the legacy of that event and how it is remembered today
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The World Trade Center
by Adam Woog
Explores the history of the World Trade Center, from its controversial inception to its destruction in the 9/11 terrorist attacks
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The red bandanna
by Tom Rinaldi
Adapted for middle-grade readers, the true story of September 11 hero Welles Crowther describes how he helped numerous people he did not know to safety before losing his life during the collapse of the South Tower.
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The memory of things
by Gae Polisner
Racing to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge after witnessing the first Twin Tower collapse on September 11, 2001, 16-year-old Kyle, having been separated from his family, impulsively brings home a traumatized girl who has forgotten who she is. By the award-winning author of The Summer of Letting Go.
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I survived the attacks of September 11, 2001
by Lauren Tarshis
Looking forward to spending his 11th birthday with his brave New York City firefighter dad, Noah is shocked when the outing is interrupted by the September 11 attacks, to which his father must respond at the risk of his life. By the author of Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree.
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The usual rules
by Joyce Maynard
After losing her mother in the September 11 attacks, young Wendy moves in with her father in California, where she meets her father's girlfriend and a sad bookstore owner while missing her half-brother back in New York.
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Love is the higher law
by David Levithan
Three New York City teens--Claire, Jasper, and Peter--express their reactions to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and its impact on their lives and the world.
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Shine, coconut moon
by Neesha Meminger
In the days and weeks following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Samar, who is of Punjabi heritage but has been raised with no knowledge of her past by her single mother, wants to learn about her family's history and to get in touch with the grandparents her mother shuns
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Towers falling
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Three dynamic fifth-graders who were born after September 11 work together on a project about how communities grow together, discovering how the attacks still powerfully affect their families and their neighborhood. By the Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author of Ninth Ward.
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Nine, ten : a September 11 story
by Nora Raleigh Baskin
The author of Anything But Typical presents the story of four middle schoolers whose lives are abruptly impacted by the September 11 attacks, describing how an abandoned boy, a boy whose mother has recently died, a Muslim girl and a girl whose mother is traveling in New York struggle with respective challenges in the days before the tragedy. Simultaneous eBook.
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All we have left
by Wendy Mills
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
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