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Children Books - Non-Fiction
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Ground Zero: How a Photograph Sent a Message of Hope
Don Nardo - Compass Point Books
Format: Print book
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The tragic events of September 11, 2001, sent shockwaves around the globe that are still felt today. Nearly 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks and thousands more were injured. On the afternoon of the attacks, three firefighters paused in their rescue work to raise an American flag... |
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9.11.01: Terrorists Attack the U.S.
Pat Lalley
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This book allows your students' to answer their questions about the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. With this sensitive, detailed book chronicling the tragedy and its aftermath. This book describes one of the most series acts of war eve |
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The 9/11 Attacks
Laura K Murray - Creative Education
Format: Print book
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"A historical account of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including the events leading up to that day, the people involved, the monumental rescue and recovery efforts, and the lingering aftermath"-- |
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September 11, 2001: Attack on New York City
Wilborn Hampton
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The award-winning Wilborn Hampton recounts one horrifying day in history through the eyes of several people who experienced it firsthand.A blind man and his dog struggling to escape from the burning North Tower, a company of firefighters risking their lives to help with th |
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The Twin Towers
David Abbott - Arcturus Publishing
Format: Print book
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Looks at some of the most well-known places in modern history and explores why they are remembered. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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Children Books - Fiction
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Eleven
Tom Rogers - Alto Nido Press, LLC
Format: Paperback
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Alex Douglas always wanted to be a hero. But nothing heroic ever happened to Alex. Nothing, that is, until his eleventh birthday. When Alex rescues a stray dog as a birthday gift to himself, he doesnt think his life can get much better. Radar, his new dog, pretty much feels the same... |
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Escape From The Twin Towers
Kate Messner - Scholastic Press
Format: Paperback
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Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, travels to New York City on the morning of the 9/11 attacks.COURAGE IN THE FACE OF DANGER!Ranger has never needed his search-and-rescue training more than when he arrives at the World Trade Center on September... |
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Ground Zero
Alan Gratz
Format: Hardcover
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Brandon is visiting his dad at work, on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Out of nowhere, an airplane slams into the tower, creating a fiery nightmare of terror and confusion. And Brandon is in the middle of it all. Can he survive -- and escape? Reshmina has grown up in the shadow... |
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I Survived The Attacks Of September 11th, 2001
Lauren Tarshis - Turtleback
Format: Print book
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Noah has always been proud of his father, a brave New York firefighter. So Noah is thrilled when his dad plans a special outing for Noah's eleventh birthday. They are taking a day off school to spend in the city, just the two of them. The morning... |
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Towers Falling
Jewell Parker Rhodes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks. When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window,... |
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Adult Books - Non-Fiction
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9/11: The World Speaks
Tribute WTC Visitor Center - Lyons Press
Format: Print book
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Almost two million people from across the United States and around the world have come through the museum galleries of the Tribute WTC Visitor Center since it opened in September 2006 right across the street from the World Trade Center site. Many of these visitors have written their poignant... |
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THE DAY THE WORLD CAME TO TOWN: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Jim De Fede - Regan Books
Format: Audio CD
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"For the better part of a week, nearly every man, woman, and child in Gander and the surrounding smaller towns stopped what they were doing so they could help. They placed their lives on hold for a group of strangers and asked for nothing in return. They affirmed the basic goodness... |
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Inside 9-11: What Really Happened
Stefan Aust
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Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11 was done by Der Spiegel, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office in Hamburg, base of operations for terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta and many of the others, Der Spiegel's journalists w |
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Report from Ground Zero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center
Dennis Smith - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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In a moving tribute to the fallen heroes of September 11, 2001, a former firefighter and best-selling author of Report from Engine Co. 82 provides an eyewitness record of events on the front lines of Ground Zero and the extraordinary efforts of police, fire, and emergency medical teams... |
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Adult Books - Fiction
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality,... |
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Movies
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9/11 Inside the Pentagon
Public Broadcasting Service - PBS
Format: DVD video
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On September 11, 2001, 184 people lost their lives when American Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon. Today, people are surprised to hear that the Pentagon was ever a target. Few know about those who escaped, many terrifyingly close to the impact zone. This is the most complete telling... |
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Extremely loud & incredibly close
Eric Roth; Scott Rudin; Stephen Daldry; Tom Hanks; Sandra Bullock; All authors
Format: Bluray Video : Blu-ray disc Visual material : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"A story that unfolds from inside the mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven-year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in the belongings of his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, sets him off on an urgent search for the lock it opens"--Container. |
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United 93
Format: Book : English
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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... |
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World Trade Center
Nicolas Cage - Paramount
Format: Video
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The true story of Port Authority policemen John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, who volunteered for rescue duty and became trapped in the rubble of the Towers on September 11, 2001. The men became two of the last survivors extracted from Ground Zero. It is a story of the true heroes and of that... |
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Let's Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage
Lisa Beamer - Tyndale House Publishers; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner! 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... |
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