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For younger readers

Currie, Stephen. Terrorists and Terrorist Groups. Lucent, 2002. For readers in grade 8 and up.

Dudley, William, ed. The Attack on America: September 11, 2002. Greenhaven, 2002. For readers in grade 9 and up.

Fridell, Ron. Terrorism: Political Violence at Home and Abroad. Enslow, 2001. For readers in grades 6 to 9; published before 9/11.

Hampton, Wilborn. September 11, 2001: Attack on New York City. Candlewick, 2003. For readers in grade 7 and up.

Landau, Elaine. Osama bin Laden: A War Against the West. 21st Century, 2002. For readers in grade 6 and up.

Margulies, Phillip. Al-Qaeda: Osama Bin Laden's Army of Terrorists. Rosen, 2003. For readers in grades 5 to 7.

Meltzer, Milton. The Day the Sky Fell: A History of Terrorism. Random House, 2002. For readers in grades 6 to 9.

Taylor, Robert. The History of Terrorism. Lucent, 2002. For readers in grade 8 and up.

Terrorism, international

Benjamin, Daniel, and Steven Simon. The Age of Sacred Terror. Random House, 2002. Two counterterrorism officials on the National Security Council staff during the Clinton Administration provide an inside assessment of terrorism and the difficulties of combating it, especially given interagency rivalries.

Bergen, Peter L. Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden. Free Press, 2001. A study of the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

Carr, Caleb. The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians, Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again. Random House, 2002. An evaluation of terrorism as a failed tactic of political gain.

Hoffman, Bruce. Inside Terrorism. Columbia University Press, 1998. Probes the motivations and methods of terrorist organizations.

Laqueur, Walter. The Age of Terrorism. Little, 1988. Terrorism within a historical perspective.

Meltzer, Milton. The Day the Sky Fell: A History of Terrorism. Rev. ed. Random House, 2002. Originally published in 1983, a revised look at the subject. For middle-school readers.

Randal, Jonathan. Osama: The Making of a Terrorist. Knopf, 2004. The emergence of Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist network Al Qaeda.

Wright, Joanne. Terrorist Propaganda: The Red Army Faction and the Provisional IRA. St. Martin's, 1991. Case study analysis of the Baader-Meinhof Gang and the IRA.

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