Books selected for the “Picturing America” Bookshelf are:

Kindergarten to Grade 3

• Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley

• Cosechando esperanza: La historia de Cesar Chavez 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 to 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 Am�rica by John Steinbeck (translated by Jos� Manuel Alvarez Fl�rez)

• 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