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When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks, nine-year-old Oskar Schell sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It leads him into the lives of strangers, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace. [Source: Wheelers]
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by 
"A Tower of Babble" by Michel Faber
The Guardian, June 3, 2005.
"Everything Is Included" by Walter Kirn
New York Times Book Review, Apr. 5, 2005, p. 1.
"A Boy's Epic Quest, Borough by Borough" by Michiko Kakutani
New York Times, Mar. 22, 2005.
"Mixed Messages" by John Updike
The New Yorker, Mar. 14, 2005.
9/11 Timeline : A timeline of the events surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
September 11 Television Archive Internet Archive. N.d. Web. 11 May 2011.
World Book Online article about September 11 terrorist attacks. (Log in to World Book Online before clicking on link to be taken directly to the article. If you have difficulties logging in please contact SVACS Library Staff)
National Geographic: My 9/11.
Revisit September 11 with a collection of powerful, immersive stories of people who were intricately associated with and impacted by the event: people in the highest echelons attempting to prevent and stop the attacks; ordinary people caught in the middle, like the window washer cleaning the windows of the 93rd floor of the World Trade Centre just moments before the attack; and people who still cannot shake how the events of that morning altered their worlds forever. [Source: ClickView]