With their eyes : September 11th, the view from a high school at ground zero / edited by Annie Thoms ; created by Taresh Batra ... [et al.] ; photos by Ethan Moses

By:

Thoms, Annie [editor]

Contributor(s):

Moses, Ethan [photographer]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Collins, 2002Edition: Revised edition, 2011Description: 245 pages : illustrations ; map; 19 cmISBN:

0060517182 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0060518065 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
9780060517182

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

812/.04508358 21

LOC classification:

PS3600.A1 W47 2002

Contents:

Summary: A collection of powerful essays in spoken word form remembering September 11, 2001, by high school students who witnessed the tragedy unfold. A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age "Profound." --Booklist "Moving." --Publishers Weekly "Rings with authenticity and resonates with power." --School Library Journal Tuesday, September 11, started off like any other day at Stuyvesant High School, located only a few blocks away from the World Trade Center. The semester was just beginning, and the students, faculty, and staff were ready to start a new year. But within a few hours on that Tuesday morning, they would share an experience that would transform their lives--and the lives of all Americans. These powerful essays by the students of Stuyvesant High School remember those who were lost and those who were forced to witness this tragedy. Here, in their own words, are the firsthand stories of a day we will never forget. This collection helped shape the HBO documentary In the Shadow of the Towers: Stuvyesant High on 9/11.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Footprints International School Library Network Toul Kork Campus	Non-Fiction	THO 812/.04508358 PS3600.A1 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	FIS01114

A collection of powerful essays in spoken word form remembering September 11, 2001, by high school students who witnessed the tragedy unfold. A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age "Profound." --Booklist "Moving." --Publishers Weekly "Rings with authenticity and resonates with power." --School Library Journal Tuesday, September 11, started off like any other day at Stuyvesant High School, located only a few blocks away from the World Trade Center. The semester was just beginning, and the students, faculty, and staff were ready to start a new year. But within a few hours on that Tuesday morning, they would share an experience that would transform their lives--and the lives of all Americans. These powerful essays by the students of Stuyvesant High School remember those who were lost and those who were forced to witness this tragedy. Here, in their own words, are the firsthand stories of a day we will never forget. This collection helped shape the HBO documentary In the Shadow of the Towers: Stuvyesant High on 9/11.

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