The Straughn High School Library applied for and received the 2009-2010 We the People Bookshelf from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  This is the second year the library has received the bookshelf.  In 2008-2009 the library also received the Picturing American grant from the Endowment for the Humanities.  These library and classroom resources are a great addition to the library.  They are available for checkout to students and teachers at Straughn High.  For more information about this wonderful program you can visit http://www.wethepeople.gov/index.html. Stop by the library and view these resources at any time.

This years bookshelf is a collection of seventeen classic hardcover books for young readers, all related to the "Picturing America" theme. In addition, libraries will receive three of these books in Spanish translation, two "Books for Readers of All Ages," and materials for programming, including bookplates, bookmarks, and posters.

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 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 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 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