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101) Thunder dog: the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Faith. Trust. Triumph.
First came the boom — the loud, deep, unapologetic bellow that seemed to erupt from the very core of the earth. Eerily, the majestic high-rise slowly leaned to the south. On the seventy-eighth floor of the World Trade Center's north tower, no alarms sounded, and no one had information about what had happened at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001 — what should have been a normal workday for thousands of people. All that was...
102) Army of One
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
In the wake of 9/11, three young people join the U.S. Army, seeking direction in their lives. They discover that unless they conform fully to the army values, their personal issues are only magnified within the military. What unfolds is an intimate and heartbreaking account of their two-year wayward journeys.
103) September 11, 2001
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Photographs and text offer a detailed chronology of the events of September 11, 2001, in which the largest terrorist attack on American soil was carried out, changing the country, and the world, forever.
105) The places we sleep
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old Abbey's world is turned upside-down by both personal and national events of September 11, 2001, as well as their aftermath, but finds greater strength through art, friendship, and family.
106) The whole world over
Author
Description
Greenie Duquette lavishes most of her passionate energy on her Greenwich Village bakery and her young son. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart. At Walter's restaurant, the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenie's coconut cake and decides to woo her away to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she accepts-heading west without...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"The tragic 9/11 event in NYC that changed the world, altered the life of Abbi Hope Goldstein as well as that of Noah Stern. They did not know each other back then, but they know each other now, and while Abbi is trying to move forward with her life, Noah still has unanswered questions that he believes Abbi can help answer"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"Yusuf is excited to start middle school in his small Texas town, but with the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks coming up, suddenly it feels like the country's same anger and grief is all focused on his Muslim community"--
112) Bullyville
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After the death of his estranged father in the World Trade Center on 9/11, thirteen-year-old Bart, still struggling with his feelings of guilt, sorror and loss, wins a scholarship to the locap preparatory school and there encounters a vicious bully whose cuelty compounds the aftermath of the tragedy.
113) Reign over me
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Charlie Fineman has slipped away from realty after the sudden loss of his wife and children. But Charlie's life takes a turn for the better when he runs into his old college roommate Alan Johnson. Their renewed friendship rekindles their long-forgotten bond, and both men emerge enriched.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Describes the causes, events, people, and legacy of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Imagine talking to those you love over a cell phone, knowing that when they hang up, they will face certain death in a heroic fight against terrorism. On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four planes and crashed them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and an empty field in Pennsylvania -- killing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to history and the ways it shapes the future.