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Books to Help Children Understand September 11: Home

FIction and non-fiction titles for children to help them understand the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

To learn more, consider a visit to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City. Their website is also a valuable resource for parents, teachers, and caregivers who wish to discuss these events with children in an age-appropriate way.

Fiction

Link to All We Have Left by Wendy Mills in the catalog.

Link to The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas bu Kimberly Willis Holt in the catalog.

Link to Big Apple Diaries by Alyssa Mendez in the catalog.

Link to Eleven by Tom Rodgers in the catalog.

Link to Ground Zero by Alan Gratz.

Link to I Survived the September 11, 2001 attacks by Lauren Tarshis in the catalog.

Link to Nine, Ten: A September 11 story by Nora Raleigh Baskin in the catalog.

Link to Somewhere Among byu Annie Donwerth=Chikamatsu in the catalog.

Link to Towers Falling by Jewel Parker Rhodes in the catalog.

Link to Throwback by Peter Leranges in the catalog.

Link to What the Jaguar Told Her by Mendez in the catalog.

Link to Yusif Azeem Is Not a Hero in the catalog.

Nonfiction

Link to America is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: the day the towers fell by Don Brown in catalog.

Link to Ground Zero: How a Photograph sent a message of hop by Don Nardo.

Link to Ground Zero then and now by Jessica Rusick in the catalog.

Link to In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers by Don Brown.

Link to Heros of 9/11 by Allan Zullo in the catalog.

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein.in the catalog.

Link to September 11, 2001: a simple account for children in the catalog.

Link to 9.11.01 Terrorists Attack the U.S by Patrick Lalley in the catalog.

Link to the Red Bandana by Tom Rinaldi in catalog.

Link to September 11, 2001: Attack on New York City by Wilborn Hampton in the catalog.

Link to Skyscraper by Lynn Curlee in the catalog.

Link to This Very Tree by Sean Rubin in the catalog.

Link to What Were the Twin Towers by Jim O'Connor in the catalog.

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