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9/11 Book Recommendations for Teens & Adults
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Ground Zero
by Alan Gratz
A dual tale published to mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks finds a young boy struggling to find his father and escape the World Trade Center in 2001, before a girl in battle-torn 2020 Afghanistan risks her life to help a wounded soldier.
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When I Ran Away
by Ilona Bannister
Escaping the September 11 attacks aboard the Staten Island Ferry, Gigi marries a fellow survivor and moves to London, where she confronts the anguish of her trauma, her brother’s death and the unspoken pain of motherhood.
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Enduring freedom
by Jawad Arash
A dual-narrative tale finds a young American army private and an Afghan youth living under the horrors of the Taliban caught on opposing sides during the tumultuous events leading up to and following September 11, 2001.
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Extremely loud & incredibly close [electronic resource]
by Jonathan Safran Foer
A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind.
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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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Doxology : a novel
by Nell Zink
Two generations of an American family come of age on either side of the September 11 attacks, transforming their ambitions against a backdrop of dramatic political and environmental changes.
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Ask me no questions
by Marina Tamar Budhos
After the terrorists attack in New York City, Nadira and her family fear their status as illegal immigrants in the country and so attempt to flee to Canada for asylum, but when things go badly at the border and her father is arrested, it is up to Nadira to help get him out of trouble and bring the family back together.
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The only plane in the sky : an oral history of 9/11
by Garrett M. Graff
A panoramic oral history of the September 11 attacks draws on hundreds of interviews with government officials, first responders, survivors, friends and family members to recount events from the perspectives of firsthand witnesses.
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The 9/11 report : a graphic adaptation
by Sidney Jacobson
A visual adaptation of the report of the 9/11 Commission uses a graphic novel format to provide an accessible version of the Commission's findings regarding the terrorist attacks on the United States and its recommendations concerning what the United States government needs to do in its wake.
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American widow
by Alissa Torres
Created in the format of a graphic novel, a deeply personal memoir recalls the author's whirlwind romance, courtship, and marriage to Eddie Torres, a one-time illegal alien who had worked his way up the ladder of success to take a dream job at Cantor Fitzgerald, only to die in the World Trade Center attacks, leaving his wife pregnant with their first child.
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102 minutes : the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers
by Jim Dwyer
A dramatic account of the survival efforts of thousands of people who were inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11 draws on hundreds of interviews as well as phone, e-mail, and radio transcripts, in an account that also raises questions about building safety and New York's emergency preparedness.
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