America Under Attack: September 11, 2001 (The Lucent Terrorism Library)

Grade 7 Up-Roleff's useful compendium offers thematically arranged perspectives from witnesses in New York and Washington, DC, U.S. and world leaders, the blamed and the accusers, and war proponents and opponents. Readers will discover a journal excerpt from an army chaplain visiting the Pentagon, Tony Blair's address to the House of Commons, a transcript of an Osama bin Laden videotape, and the Falwell/Robertson interview. A brief introduction precedes each entry; the citations follow. This will be a sought-after research tool. Stewart tells much of the story through footnoted, anecdotal accounts. Survivors of the Twin Towers describe a person with "the skin from his wrist-hanging down past his fingertips," coworkers being sucked out of office windows, details of people jumping from the buildings.