We+the+People+Bookshelf+2009

We the People Bookshelf for 2009 has the theme of "Picturing America." Click on the authors and titles to find out more information. =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 9-12= //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