September 11, 2001: Terrorist attacks
Junior Fiction
Ask Me No Questions
Marina Budhos (JF). New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006. 162 p. Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.
New York’s Bravest
Mary Pope Osborne (E) ; paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2002. Tells of the heroic deeds of the legendary New York firefighter, Mose Humphreys.
September Roses
Jeanette Winter (JF). New York : Farrar Straus Giroux c2004. Two sisters find a good use for the roses they have grown when their plane from South Africa is delayed by a storm, causing them to miss a flower show in New York City.
Junior Nonfiction
America Under Attack
Scott Marquette (JUV 363.34 MAR). Vero Beach, Fla. : Rourke Pub. LLC, c2003. 48 p. Contents: Introduction: “A War to Save Civilization” — Map of Middle East/Central Asia, 2001 — Timeline — Roots of terror — “An Act of War” — A war of many fronts — “The New Normal” — America changed forever.
911 : The Book Of Help
edited by Michael Cart (JUV 363.34 NIN) ; with Marc Aronson and Marianne Carus. Chicago : Cricket Books, 2002. 178 p. A collection of essays, poems, short fiction, and drawings created in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by authors and illustrators of books for young adults.
A Nation Challenged : A Visual History Of 9/11 And Its Aftermath
The New York Times (JUV 363.34 NAT) Young reader’s ed. New York : Scholastic, 2002. 96 p. Contents: September 11, 2001 — The days after — Meeting the challenge abroad — Meeting the challenge at home. Text, photographs, and illustrations from the New York Times section, “A Nation Challenged,” record how the world was changed due to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and their aftermath.
Fireboat : The Heroic Adventures Of The John J. Harvey
Maira Kalman (JUV 363.34 KAL). New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2002. A fireboat, launched in 1931, is retired after many years of fighting fires along the Hudson River, but is saved from being scrapped and then called into service again on September 11, 2001.
YA Fiction
Bullyville
Francine Prose (YA). New York : HarperTeen/HarperCollins, c2007. 260 p. 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, sorrow and loss, wins a scholarship to the local preparatory school and there encounters a vicious bully whose cruelty compounds the aftermath of the tragedy.
Playing Dad’s Song
D. Dina Friedman (YA). New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 131 p. While wrestling with memories of his father, who died when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, eleven-year-old Gus, born into a family of musicians, starts taking oboe lessons, begins to compose music, and joins his sister in auditioning for a school musical.