We the People Bookshelf on “Becoming American”

The following titles were included on the 2005-2006 We the People Bookshelf on “Becoming American.”

A complete list of libraries awarded the “Becoming American” Bookshelf may be viewed here.

Kindergarten to Grade 3

The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland

Watch the Stars Come Out by Riki Levinson

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

Grades 4 to 6

Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book by Virginia Hamilton

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord

Grades 7 to 8

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

Grades 9 to 12

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin edited by Louis P. Masur

Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie by Ole Edvart Rølvaag