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Thirteen-year-old Rabia, along with her mother and younger brother, flee Afghanistan and the brutal Taliban for Pakistan. Relocating to North America, their flight falls on the fateful morning of 9/11. After the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, their plane is diverted to Gander, Newfoundland. Also on the plane is an American boy named Colin, who struggles with his prejudices against Rabia and her family. The people in the...
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Ask anyone: September 11, 2001, was serene and lovely, a perfect dayuntil a plane struck the World Trade Center. But right now it is a few days earlier, and four kids in different parts of the country are going about their lives. Sergio, who lives in Brooklyn, is struggling to come to terms with the absentee father he hates and the grandmother he loves. Wills father is gone, too, killed in a car accident that has left the family reeling. Naheed has...
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I survived volume 6
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When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father's, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.
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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.
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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.
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[2006]
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The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller. From its opening scene-when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head-novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping,...
9) Return
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Baxter family series. Redemption volume 3
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A fresh new look for the best-selling series from America's number-one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Fans will enjoy a personal note from Karen and Gary Smalley as well as discussion questions for book group use. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasn't discovered it yet. The Redemption series won Christian Retailing's 2005 Retailer's Choice Award for Best Series! This touching...
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[2016]
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"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...
11) Remember
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Baxter family series. Redemption volume 2
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Ashley Baxter, convinced she is unlovable, hides her heart from her family, the man who loves her, and even God, but she moves to a position of hope and faith with the help of four Alzheimer's patients, and the life-changing events of September 11, 2001.
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"It's 2 AM on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar on New York's Lower East Side, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonders if she'll ever make it as a reporter in the big city--and whether she made a terrible mistake in breaking up with her longtime boyfriend Matthew. As Cecily reaches for the phone to call him, she hears a guy on the barstool...
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Tayshas List 2025 (Gr. 9+)
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
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"In the aftermath of 9/11, high school sophomore Omid grapples with finding the right words to connect with his grandfather, embrace his Iranian heritage, and express his feelings toward a girl, until he immerses himself in the rhymes and rhythms of rap music and finds his voice. Told in verse format."--|cProvided by publisher.
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Southern Brooklyn, July 1996. Punk kids have to make their own fun. Bobby Santovasco and his pal Zeke like to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. They think it's dumb and harmless until it's too late to think otherwise. Then there's Jack Cornacchia, a widower who lives with his high school age daughter Amelia and reads meters for Con Ed but also has a secret life as a vigilante, righting neighborhood wrongs through acts of violence....
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I survived (Graphic novels) volume 4
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2021
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When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father's, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.
18) Eleven
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[2014]
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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 which fell on September 11, 2001. Then everything changed"--P. [4] of cover.
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Tweens
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
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"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"--
20) Absent friends
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The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures the mood of a singular time and place, winding through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a riveting...
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