We the People Bookshelf on "Picturing America"

The following titles were included in the 2008-2009 We the People Bookshelf on "Picturing America". A complete list of libraries that received the "Picturing America" Bookshelf is available here.

Kindergarten to Grade 3

• Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley
• Cosechando esperanza: La historia de César Chávez by Kathleen Krull (translated by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy)
• Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull
• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Sweet Music in Harlem by Debbie Taylor

Grades 4 to 6

• The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
• American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne
• On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
• Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet
• The Captain’s Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe by Roland Smith

Grades 7 to 8

• The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman
• La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (translated by Manuel Broncano)
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Grades 9 to 12

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange by Elizabeth Partridge
• Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
• Viajes con Charley - En busca de América by John Steinbeck (translated by José Manuel Alvarez Flórez)
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Bonus books for readers of all ages:

• Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out by The National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance
• 1776: The Illustrated Edition by David McCullough