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We the People Bookshelf

"Picturing America" Collection

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The “Picturing America” Bookshelf includes the following titles, which were selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in cooperation with the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ALA.

This collection will be on display for June, July and August at the library. Adults and teens can earn a free extra entry into our Adult and Teen Summer Reading Raffle, just by checking out one of these fine titles. Free bookmarks will be available. We will also be hosting a special storytime for ages 3-8, a kids movie night and 2 movie nights for adults. Click on the link above for program details.

The We the People “Picturing America” Bookshelf is the literary complement of NEH’s Picturing AmericaSM visual arts project. Instead of paint, marble, silver, or glass, words are the media used to portray significant themes in American history and culture. Readers are invited to steer their way across the continent by river with Lewis and Clark in 1802, travel the railroad with Robert Louis Stevenson in 1879, or drive along the open highways with John Steinbeck and his dog Charley in 1960. Through the life and poetry of Walt Whitman emerge powerful images of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln; through the life and lens of Dorothea Lange we witness the impersonal forces and human faces of the Depression.

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

ALA - American Library Association National Endowment for the Humanities  WTP - We The People