One Theme - Many Books: We the People Bookshelf 2006-2007: Pursuit of Happiness
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See the recommendations from each school for other books that embody the theme "Pursuit of Happiness"
More information can be found at this National Endowment for the Humanities site.
The National Endowment for the Humanities invites libraries to apply for a "Bookshelf" each year. The books are chosen around a theme "important to the nation's heritage." Every Rockford Public School library received 19 books which included four in Spanish. Also received was a CD with performances of traditional music featured in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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 Munoz 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
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