The Library has been awarded the WE THE PEOPLE BOOKSHELF
by the National Endowment for the Humanities for the past 5 years!

Each year, the NEH selects books that share a theme important to the nation's heritage.
This year the “Created Equal” Bookshelf provides opportunities for exploring the
Revolutionary generation’s declaration of “all [people] are created equal.” 
The books below address challenges and progress in efforts to live up to the
ideal of universal human equality.

2008 CREATED EQUAL Bookshelf

• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
• Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
• Pink Y Say by Patricia Polacco (translated by Alejandra Lopez Varela) Spanish
• Saturnalia by Paul Fleischman
• Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence by Russell Freedman
• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton
• Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
• Lyddie by Katherine Paterson (translated by Rosa Benavides)  Spanish
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
• Abraham Lincoln the Writer: A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches & Letters ed. by Harold Holzer
• Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez
• Senderos Fronterizos: Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez  Spanish
• Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober
• That All People May Be One People, Send Rain to Wash the Face of the Earth by Nez Perce Chief Joseph
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Flores Para Algernon by Daniel Keyes (translated by Paz Barroso) Spanish
• Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller
• Amistad: A Novel by David Pesci
• Abraham Lincoln - People, Places, Politics [includes 2 CD Roms] by Steven Mintz, ed.

2007 The Pursuit of Happiness

• Aesop's Fables  by Aesop
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening  by Robert Frost
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
• Mike Mulligan Y Su Maquina Marvillosa (Spanish)
• Tuck Everlasting  by Natalie Babbitt
• The Great Migration by Jacob Lawrence
• These Happy Golden Years  by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Journal of Wong Ming-Chung by Laurence Yep
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Esperanza Renance (Spanish)
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 
• Pioneros (Spanish)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
• Happy Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder by various musicians

2006 Becoming American Bookshelf
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: Black African Folktales 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

2005 Freedom Bookshelf

Kindergarten to Grade 3

• Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley
• The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
• Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
• El Cuento de Pedrito Conega (in Spanish) by Beatrix Potter

Grades 4 to 6

• The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
• Ben and Me by Robert Lawson
• To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
• The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• El León, La Bruja & Ropero (in Spanish) by C.S. Lewis

Grades 7 to 8

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Fahrenheit 451 (in Spanish) by Ray Bradbury
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Grades 9 to 12

• Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• Mi Antonia (in Spanish) by Willa Cather
• Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

2004 Courage Bookshelf

Kindergarten to Grade 3

• The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
• Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

Grades 4 to 6

• The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
• The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Grades 7 to 8

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Grades 9 to 12

• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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