We the People Bookshelf



	2005-2006: Becoming American

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K-3

4-6

7-8

9-12

2005-2006: Becoming American

—Grades K-3—

The Lotus Seed — Sherry Garland

Watch the Stars Come Out — Riki Levinson*

Grandfather's Journey — Allen Say

—Grades 4-6—

Immigrant Kids — Russell Freedman

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book — Virginia Hamilton

Rip Van Winkle — Washington Irving*

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Tales of the Supernatural
Related Websites
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson — Bette Bao Lord

—Grades 7-8—

Rifles for Watie — Harold Keith

The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism
The American Civil War: A “Terrible Swift Sword”
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the Political Polarization over Slavery
Related Websites
American Memory Project, Library of Congress
- Selected Civil War Photographs
- Time Line of the Civil War
New Perspectives on the West: Civil War on the Western Frontier

The Glory Field — Walter Dean Myers

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — Betty Smith

Where I Come From
The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol
Pearl S. Buck: “On Discovering America”
Related Websites
Children in Urban America
Picturing Modern America
Emigration and Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Related Activities
Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood

Dragonwings — Laurence Yep

—Grades 9-12—

Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather*

New Perspectives on the West
National Museum of the American Indian
- Zuni (Southwest)

Barrio Boy — Ernesto Galarza

Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over
Related Websites
City/La Ciudad
Children in Urban America
Emigration and Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
The New Americans
Related Activities
Your Family Anthology
Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — edited by Louis P. Masur

300 Years of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Library

Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie — Ole Edvart Rølvaag






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