Remembering 9/11

Created on August 30, 2024, 3:00 pm

Last Updated July 22, 2025, 2:13 pm

The aftermath of the terrorist attack of September 11th, 2001 was felt across the country, with the most prominent memory being the attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. In the days following the 9/11 attacks it was found that terrorists had killed nearly 3,000 people and injured more than 6,000 others, with no way of measuring the many loved ones affected by the losses. This list includes first person accounts, accounts of loved ones, and retellings across all ages.

1) America's heroes: inspiring stories of courage, sacrifice and patriotism

2) Heart of a soldier: a story of love, heroism, and September 11th

Author

Stewart, James B

Series

Thorndike Press large print biography

Formats

Book, Large Print

Summary

A story about bravery and heroes at the World Trade Center's South Tower on September 11. One hero, Rick Rescorla got 2,700 employers of Morgan Stanley, and went back to save others.

3) September 11, 2001: attack on New York City

Author

Hampton, Wilborn

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Summary

Describes the September 11 attacks in the United States and presents several personal stories of tragedy told by New Yorkers who lived through the collapse of the World Trade Center. Includes a new postscript covering events that have happened since that day, including the death of Osama bin Laden.

Author

Gratz, Alan, 1972-

Summary

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.

5) Sunrise through the darkness: a survivor's account of learning to live again beyond 9/11

Author

Jimeno, William, 1967-

Summary

"On September 11th, 2001, Port Authority Police Officer, William Jimeno, left his home unsuspecting of what the day was about to hold. Just a few hours later he lay crushed beneath the Twin Towers' 220 stories of concrete, steel, and glass. Most of his team had already died. He and his sergeant were helplessly trapped. The pain and anguish had only begun. Many have seen Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, which depicted this horrific day and the rescue...

6) I survived the attacks of September 11, 2001

Author

Tarshis, Lauren

Series

I Survived volume 6
I survived (Sound recording)
Scholastic on Brilliance Audio

Summary

When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.

7) One Tuesday morning

Author

Kingsbury, Karen

Series

September 11 volume 1
9/11 volume 1

Formats

Book, Large Print, eAudiobook

Summary

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...

8) The only plane in the sky: an oral history of 9/11

Author

Graff, Garrett M., 1981-

Summary

"Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower, which traced the rise of al-Qaeda, to The 9/11 Commission Report, the government's definitive factual retrospective of the attacks. But one perspective has been missing up to this point--a 360-degree account of the day told through the voices of the people who experienced it. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, award-winning...

9) Towers falling

Author

Rhodes, Jewell Parker

Series

Bluebonnet award 2017-2018

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, Playaway

Summary

"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"-- Provided by publisher. For fifth grader Dèja, it's tough enough starting school in a new neighborhood. Projects about her home and family only highlight how different she is from her classmates. Does her teacher reallly want an essay about living in a shelter? When Miss Garcia suggests that all her assignments...

10) Rubble: how the 9/11 families rebuilt their lives and inspired America

Author

11) This very tree: a story of 9/11, resilience, and regrowth

Author

Rubin, Sean, 1986-

Formats

eAudiobook, Picture Book

Summary

"A deeply moving nonfiction picture book about the 9/11 Survivor Tree and the spirit of America"-- Provided by publisher

12) Beyond Tuesday morning

Author

Kingsbury, Karen

Series

9/11 volume 2
September 11 volume 2
Thorndike Press large print Christian romance

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, eAudiobook

Summary

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...

13) Survivor tree

Author

Colleen, Marcie

Summary

The Callery pear tree standing at the base of the World Trade Center is almost destroyed on September 11, but it is pulled from the rubble, coaxed back to life, and replanted as part of the 9/11 memorial.

14) Remembering 9--11: four films commemorating the heroes & victims of September 11th

Summary

Four films exploring the intersection of everyday life with the single worst act of terrorism in United States history. 9/11: the firefighter's story: a documentary shot on the day of the attack and afterwards. Let's roll: the story of flight 93: a reenactment of the passengers' takeover of the fourth plane; produced by Granada Television in England. Rudy: A reenacted depiction of Rudy Giuliani focusing largely on the September 11th terrorist attack. Brothers...

15) 102 minutes: the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers

Author

Dwyer, Jim, 1957-2020

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

Summary

Tells of the men and women who saved themselves and others in the final minutes before the World Trade Towers collapsed on September 11, 2001, and includes testimonies from workers in the buildings, police and fire personnel, a construction manager, and a window washer.

16) 102 minutes: the unforgettable story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers

Author

Dwyer, Jim, 1957-2020

17) Molly and the Twin Towers: a 9/11 survival story

Author

Series

Girls Survive

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Summary

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.

18) Fall and rise: the story of 9/11

Author

Zuckoff, Mitchell

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

Summary

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,...

19) All we have left

Author

Mills, Wendy, 1973-

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Summary

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.

20) A widow's walk

Author

Fontana, Marian