We the People Bookshelf on the “Pursuit of Happiness”

The following titles were included on the 2006-2007 We the People Bookshelf on the “Pursuit of Happiness.”

A complete list of libraries awarded the “Pursuit of Happiness” Bookshelf may be viewed here.

Kindergarten to Grade 3

Aesop’s Fables by Aesop

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

Grades 4 to 6

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

The Great Migration: An American Story by Jacob Lawrence

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung by Laurence Yep

Grades 7 to 8

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Grades 9 to 12

Kindred by Octavio Butler

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman