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Author
Series
I survived volume 6
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
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.
2) Ground Zero
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
Author
Publisher
Etch, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Lexile measure
410L
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fifth grader Déja, it's tough enough starting school in a new neighborhood. Projects about her home and family only highlight how different she is from her classmates. Does her teacher really want an essay about living in a shelter? When Miss Garcia suggests that all her assignments have something to do with the two towers missing from the skyline out their classroom windows, Déja is just confused. She sets off on a journey of discovery, with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 570L
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
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.
Author
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
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The journey of the Callery pear tree rescued from Ground Zero and replanted ten years later is presented alongside a wordless story following a girl and her firefighter uncle who is a 9/11 hero.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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" -- Provided by publisher.
10) TimeRiders
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rescued from imminent death, teens Maddy, Liam, and Sal join forces in 2001 Manhattan to correct changes in history made by other time travelers, using a "time bubble" surrounding the attack on the Twin Towers to hide their journeys.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Twin Towers fall on September 11, 2001, blocks from her school, twelve-year-old Molly, unable to reach her dads or Gran, must find her seven-year-old sister, Adi, and get her safely home.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
It's early September 2001, and twelve-year-old Abbey is the new kid at school. Again. I worry about people speaking to me / and worry just the same / when they don't. Tennessee is her family's latest stop in a series of moves due to her dad's work...
13) Enduring freedom
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined" --
Author
Series
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Lo único por lo que Lucas siente más adoración que por el fútbol Americano es su tío Benny, el mejor amigo de su padre del departamento de bomberos donde ambos trabajan. Benny le enseñó a Lucas todo lo que hay que saber sobre el fútbol americano, así que cuando los padres del chico consideran que el deporte es demasiado peligroso y que por ello debe renunciar a practicarlo, Lucas tiene que conversar con su principal admirador. A la mañana...
15) Throwback
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Corey Fletcher has an active imagination. He sees things no one else does. Cracks jokes no one else gets. And goes places few would ever dare go. Like the past. All he needs is a metal artifact from a point in time, and Corey can go there. Although hundreds of time travelers live in secret throughout the world, including Corey's own grandfather, none has the ability to change past events. But when Corey accidentally saves a life while time traveling,...
16) Survivor tree
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
The Callery pear tree standing at the base of the World Trade Center is almost destroyed on September 11, but it is pulled from the rubble, coaxed back to life, and replanted as part of the 9/11 memorial.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"--
Yusuf Azeem has spent all his life in the small town of Frey, Texasand nearly that long waiting for the chance to participate in the regional robotics competition, which he just knows he can win. Only, this year...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ranger the time-traveling Golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth-graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage, guide them to safety, and hopefully reunite them with Risha's...
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jake and Sam are best friends, but after the attacks on September 11, their friendship is in danger of crumbling as Sam and his family succumb to hatred for being Muslim American"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixth graders Tony and Elizabeth are taking a field trip with their class to the World Trade Center, but when terrorists hijack and fly airplanes into the Twin Towers, they will need to work together in order to survive one of the most horrific attacks on United States soil.