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Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Michael Hingson, blind since infancy, shares the story of his escape from the seventy-eighth floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, with the help of his guide dog, Roselle, and discusses how his life, faith, parents, friends, and mentors throughout the years prepared him to meet the emergency without panic.
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Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the events and immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, in which planes were crashed into the Twin Towers buildings in New York City as well as into the Pentagon building near Washington, D.C.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Three years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York City. Jamie Bryan, widow of a firefighter who lost his life on that terrible day, has found meaning in her season of loss by volunteering at St. Paul's, the memorial chapel across the street from where the Twin Towers once stood. Here she meets a daily stream of people touched by the tragedy, including two men with whom she feels a connection. One is a firefighter also changed by the...
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Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Describes the actions of emergency telephone operators, police officers, firefighters, trained dogs, and individual citizens who helped in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
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English
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2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner!
Lisa Beamer, wife of September 11 hero Todd Beamer, reveals what really happened on the ill-fated United Flight 93, and shares poignant glimpses of a genuine American hero. She talks candidly about her life with Todd and the devastating day her children learned their daddy had died, the mix of grief and joy when she gave birth to the daughter she was pregnant with at the time, and how she found the...
Lisa Beamer, wife of September 11 hero Todd Beamer, reveals what really happened on the ill-fated United Flight 93, and shares poignant glimpses of a genuine American hero. She talks candidly about her life with Todd and the devastating day her children learned their daddy had died, the mix of grief and joy when she gave birth to the daughter she was pregnant with at the time, and how she found the...
9) Remember
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Baxter family series. Redemption volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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A deep regret... Though Ashley vowed to start a new life when she came back from Paris, the mistakes she made there continue to haunt her. She has locked up her heart, convinced that no one- including God- could forgive her. But four unlikely people-Alzheimer's patients-find the cracks in Ashley's heart and slowly help her heal. An unthinkable tragedy... Then comes the nightmare of September 11, which forever changes the lives of the Baxter family,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the roar of the World Trade Center collapsing on top of him and his fellow firefighters. The man in the hospital bed remembers nothing. Not rusing with his teammates up the stairway of the south tower to help trapped victims. Not being blasted from the building. and not the woman sitting by his bedside who says she is his wife. Jamie Bryan will do anything to help her beloved husband regain his memory, and with it...
14) Towers falling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader De??ja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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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. Includes author's note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Killing volume 11
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English
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In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers...
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