Seven and a Half Tons of Steel

Name: Seven and a Half Tons of Steel
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Janet Nolan
ISBN: 9781501944642

Author: Janet Nolan

Narrator: Christina Moore

Unabridged: 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/16/2016

Categories: Children's Nonfiction, History, Us History

Synopsis

This powerful story reveals how something remarkable can emerge from a devastating event. Following the events of September 11, 2001, the governor of New York gave the Navy a steel beam that was once inside one of the World Trade Towers. Seven and a Half Tons of Steel tells the story of what the Navy did with it. There is a ship, a navy ship. It is called the USS New York. It is big like other navy ships, and it sails like other navy ships, but there is something special about the USS New York. Following the events of September 11, 2001, the governor of New York gave the Navy a steel beam that was once inside one of the World Trade Towers. The beam was driven from New York to a foundry in Louisiana. Metal workers heated the beam to a high, high temperature. Chippers and grinders, painters and polishers worked on the beam for months. And then, seven and a half tons of steel, which had once been a beam in the World Trade Center, became a navy ship's bow. This powerful story reveals how something remarkable can emerge from a devastating event.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Yapha

My problem with this lovely book is its intended audience. It is written too simplistically for students who are old enough to understand 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina, and won't make sense to younger students. I'm not sure what to do with it.......more

Goodreads review by Vera

It has been 15 years since that infamous day in September when America was attacked by terrorists using "homegrown" or routine means - airplanes loaded with passengers - to wreak havoc on three American locations. New York was home to the World Trade Towers and airplanes were flown into the sides of......more

Goodreads review by emyrose8

Not technically a biography, but a biography of a ship, so it counts. ;) I knew steel beams from the Twin Towers were used for other things (there's a bit of an I beam set in a memorial garden at one of the colleges around here in memory of that day). I didn't know one of the beams was melted down t......more

Goodreads review by Relyn

Each week in library I use one of our Show Me nominated books to teach the lesson for second through fourth graders. I liked this book. I really, really liked this book. So did the students. That's what surprised me - that the students were so engaged in this book. I found SO MANY wonderful non-fict......more

Goodreads review by Jillian

I get that this is the story of the ship and not 9/11, but I feel like even a two-sentence explanation of what happened would have benefited the book. Also, I find it more than a little...uncomfortable? That we would take a piece of the twin towers and turn it into a war machine. (But that's not the......more