I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001

I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001, is the sixth book in the "I Survived" Series. It was published on July 1, 2012. The book is based on the Attacks of the Twin Towers. It was Published by Scholastic and Written by Lauren Tarshis. The main Character is a Football fan named Lucas, and the deuteragonists are his dad and his friend, Benny.

Chapter 1: (Prologue) Tuesday, September 11, 2001. NYC. 8:46 AM Lucas watches as a plane is heading straight for one of Twin Towers, scared, and the plane crashes into one of the towers. Lucas begs for the pilot to move up, but it crashes into the building. People scream, and smoke and fire fill up the air.

Chapter 2: Wednesday, August 29, 2001. Port Jackson. Lucas plays football, while the temperature in 95 degrees. Lucas catches the football. He recalls how it was his dad's friend, Benny, to get him into football. His dad and Benny worker as firemen. Lucas got interested in Benny after his dad was injured in a fire and was sent to a hospital. Like him, Uncle Benny was obsessed with football. They always watch ESPN together. He also recalls how Benny gave him hope when he first started football. Lucas, which daydreaming of Benny, crashes headfirst into turf and suffers a concussion.

Chapter 3: It is revealed Lucas won't play football for 12 days. Lucas feels that him and dad turned apart since the warehouse fire. Lucas loved seeing visiting his dad's firehouse he worked in, but after the 1998 fire that killed 4 firemen, his dad was never the same again.

Chapter 4: September 10, 2001: The day before Lucas is allowed on the field, Lucas goes to a doctor named Dr. Barett. Lucas's mom comforts him. Dr. Barett shows Lucas pictures of football stars, including Stan Walsh. He died of a brain disease. Lucas's mom asks about how many concussions is too many, and Dr. Barett says that for a 5th grader, three in two years is too many. The doctor says Lucas will never play football again, much to Lucas's demise. He tries to object. He runs away from home to New York City to find Uncle Benny.

Chapter 5: September 11, 2001. 8:15 AM. On his way to find Benny, Lucas passes the Twin Towers. He remembers the view from the 110th floor. He was with Dad. Soon, Lucas finds Benny. Benny was working at FDNY. Lucas doesn't say anything when Benny asks him who brought him there. While Benny and Lucas have a conversation, everybody around them, including them, notice a plane flying very low.

Chapter 6, 8:46 AM Everybody looks up, looking at the plane flying only 20 feet above them. The plane is marked American Airlines. Lucas wonders what is happening to the pilot. He notices something is wrong. Lucas begs in his head for the plane to pull up, but the plane crashes into one of the Twin Towers, which they are standing right next to. Smoke and fire fill the air. Everybody screams. Benny runs with Lucas and calls a 10-60. Lucas notices there are thousands of people in the building the plane crashed into.

Chapter 7: Benny tells the department the large jet crashed into the North Tower. There were ten floors of fire. Benny said they have to get ready. The fires were growing. The fires were near the top, so Lucas worried about the people in the building. Benny says he has to go into the building and walks straight into the Twin Tower.

Chapter 8: 9:00 AM. Benny and about ten thousand firefighters walk into the building. Lucas goes to the firehouse to do chores, and watches on the TV as news reporters show what is happening at the North Twin Tower and how they were built in 1980 and at 110 floors, used to be the tallest buildings in the world, and how 50,000 people worked there. Then, another jet crashes into the second tower, and the towers are on fire. There was a massive explosion, and it is guessed that this was a terrorist attack, and the planes were hijacked, and the people leading it murdered the pilot and crashed into the building with people on the jet in it.

Chapter 9: Lucas believes it was some kind of attack. He tries to contact his mom, but his phone doesn't work. Lucas goes off to find Dad and Benny. Lucas cries, and runs the opposite direction people are going, unlike them- he is going to the twin towers, not away from them. There are hundreds of sirens. Lucas decides he'll wait for Uncle Benny and Dad. Firefighters come out with people. He goes into towards the Twin Towers, despite an officer's warnings. Lucas finds Dad.

Chapter 10: 9:50 AM. Lucas says to Dad that he really wanted to find Uncle Benny, and what happened. Dad says they have to get out of the area. The firemen can't get the fire out, and now it's a rescue operation. there is no connection, so nobody can talk to others through devices. Dad tells Lucas to get a Paramedic while Dad helps people. Dad and Lucas search for Ladder 177. Right where the twin towers are, Dad screams for everybody to run. There is a loud sound. Dad gets a large group of people, including Lucas and bring them to a convenience store and cover their heads. There is a blast and hot wind. Lucas feels like there is dust everywhere on him. He feels like the world had ended, and he was the only person left on earth.

Chapter 11. Dad asks if anybody is hurt, which nobody is badly. Everybody is coughing, and the dust feels rather strange. Lucas feels they are trapped, and Dad leads people somewhere. He says it isn't good to breath the dust, and a part of the building collapsed. When Lucas walks out, everything is destroyed. Cars on fire, fire trucks and ambulances smashed. It looked like there was a war there. There was dust everywhere. There was only dust left of the towers. The building was in rubbish. It is obvious that Benny is dead. Lucas and Dad head North, and Lucas knows nothing will ever be the same.

Chapter 12: November 4, 2001. 2:15 AM. Lucas, Mom, and Dad watch Lucas's former football team and watch one of Dad's friends who died in the attack's son. His football team talked to Lucas. Lucas knows he didn't quit football, and he truly didn't quit his friends, either. He knew how sad it was for Dad and Benny when they found out their friends had died. Some other people made it back, tough covered in blood, dust, and ash. Lucas and dad escaped to the firehouse, and Lucas prayed. Dad bought a Seagrave model from the basement. They slept on it. Uncle Benny says they have some champions, and winks at Lucas. It turns out Benny isn't dead. He made it out. The memory when he found out that Benny was safe would stay in his heart forever. Lucas watches as the kids play, and cheers when Mark's son runs and catches the football, and the football looked impossible to catch. But it wasn't. Lucas looks up to the sky, and knows it turns out Dad was Dad again.

Trivia:

This is the shortest book in the "I Survived" series, also with the least chapters. There are 82 pages and 12 Chapters.

Uncle Benny was original not going to survive the collaspe of Tower One. This was because of how a sad time it was.