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Author
Publisher
The Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red bandanna, which he always carried with him. On September 11, 2001, Welles Remy Crowther saved numerous people from the upper floors of the World Trade Center South Tower. "The Man in the Red Bandanna" recounts and celebrates his heroism on that day. Welles' story carries an inspirational message that will resonate with adults as well as young children.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Jack McCann is a high-stakes Wall Street trader who sneaks into his office early one morning to try and clear out his things and get out of dodge; he knows he's in trouble, deep legal trouble, a fact highlighted by the urgent phone calls from his boss. Outside his office window, Jack hears a booming sound, and then the worst thing imaginable. He works in the World Trade Center, and it is September 11, 2001. His wife in Connecticut, Diane, is visited...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Lisa Beamer was thrust into the national spotlight after her husband, Todd, led a counterattack against terrorists on United Flight 93. He -- and all the other passenger heroes -- lost their lives in a Pennsylvania field. But that plane was the only one of the four hijacked planes on 9-11 that didn't hit its target- most likely the white House or the Capitol. Todd's last known words, "Let's roll!" have become a rallying cry for the entire American...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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. Includes author's notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
God works miracles in the lives of two people even in the midst of tragedy when driven businessman Eric Michaels loses his memory after being injured in the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and is mistaken for fireman Jamie Bryan, a joyful Christian husband and father who was killed in the collapse of the towers.
32) All we have left
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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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
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the first five hundred days after September 11 that reveals previously undisclosed information about the terror wars, warrantless wiretapping, and the anthrax attacks.
Publisher
Mode Records
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The artist and New York City resident Art Spiegelman drew the comic board book In the Shadow of No Towers immediately after the September 11 attacks. The story follows Spiegelman's search for his daughter in the chaos, combined with his feelings of dislocation, grief, anxiety, and outrage over the horror of the attacks, through to his observations of the event's 'hijacking' by the Bush administration.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A former FBI special agent offers an insider's account of how the September 11th attacks could have been prevented, as well as his role in the war on terror, including his highly effective interrogation efforts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
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 to...
37) Return
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Redemption volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Luke Baxter turns his back on his family, his faith, and Reagan, the woman he loves, but when he learns that Reagan is about to have his baby, he struggles to find a way to let love back into his life again.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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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...
39) United 93
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Full screen ed.
Language
English
Description
Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Once hijacked, the passengers and crew are able...
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Series
Language
English
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This title examines events of the 9/11 terrorist attacks from the initial impacts to the declaration of the War on Terror, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and the creation of museums and monuments. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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