Bookshelf on Freedom

The "Freedom" Bookshelf

In addition to the fifteen books in English selected for the Bookshelf, NEH added four of the works in Spanish translation. The books included in the "Freedom" Bookshelf were:

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 del Conejo Pedro by Beatrix Potter (Spanish translation)

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 Leon, La Bruja & El Ropero by C.S. Lewis (Spanish translation of "The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe")

Grades 7 to 8

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

Grades 9 to 12

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

Selected libraries

See a list of libraries selected to receive the "Freedom" Bookshelf.

On June 8, 2004, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced We the People Bookshelf, a new set of classic books for young readers (K-12) on the theme of "freedom."

Applications

Applications were accepted at two deadlines: one in November 2004 and the other in March 2005.

Applications are no longer being accepted. We the People Freedom programs will continue to take place at libraries through March 2006.

Find out more about the We the People Freedom Bookshelf.

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