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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2003
Gr 5-9 Gow covers much of the same ground included in other surveys of the events of September 11, 2001: eyewitness accounts, brief histories of the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and the timing and nature of the attacks. She mentions the heroes and the helpers-professional, volunteer, and canine. Hers is a more graphic treatment, however, than most for this age group. The footnoted sources describe what it was like to see victims jumping from the towers, to observe "body parts all over the street...Log In or Sign Up to Read More