Library News - May 2008

We the People Bookshelf

The MacDuffie School Library is pleased to announce that we are one of 3,000 libraries across the country selected to receive a We the People Bookshelf grant, which provides free hardcover editions of 17 classic books on the theme of “Created Equal,” Spanish translations of four of the titles and supporting materials to participating libraries. The grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the American Library Association. The We the People Bookshelf on “Created Equal” contains the following books:

• Grades K-3:  “The Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian Anderson; “The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln; “Pink and Say” by Patricia Polacco.
• Grades 4-6: “Elijah of Buxton” by Christopher Paul Curtis; “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.
• Grades 7-8: “Saturnalia” by Paul Fleishman; “Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott” by Russell Freedman; “Abraham Lincoln the Writer: A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches and Letters” edited by Harold Holzer; “Breaking Through” by Francisco Jiménez.
• Grades 9-12: “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; “Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography” by William Lee Miller; “Amistad: A Novel” by David Pesci.

The award is part of the NEH’s We the People initiative, which supports projects that strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. For more information about We the People Bookshelf, visit http://www.wethepeople.gov/bookshelf/index.html or http://publicprograms.ala.org/bookshelf/.

Mrs. Reid, Librarian