The Memory of Things

• Love Is the Higher Law by David Levithan (2010)

 A young adult novel in which the lives of three teenagers are forever changed by the catastrophic attacks on September 11.

• Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum (2019)

A young adult novel about a teen girl who tries to escape the impact of September 11th on her life only to realize one must sometimes expose history’s hard truths.

• A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Taheri Mafi (2018)

A young adult novel set in 2002 in which a Muslim teen girl must contend with increased bigotry and discrimination as a result of September 11th

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• America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell by Don Brown (2011)

A forthright yet sensitive account of the events for younger readers.

• 14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy (2009)

A picture book describing one country’s empathetic reaction to September 11.

• “I Was Stranded in Newfoundland on Sept. 11. Here’s My ‘Come From Away’ Story” by Amy Polacko (2021)

An airline passenger whose flight was diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, a town that welcomed thousands of fearful and stranded travelers.