We the People

Pursuit of Happiness Bookshelf

Public and school (K-12) libraries were invited to apply to be among the 2,000 libraries selected to receive the third We the People Bookshelf, fifteen thematically related books along with supplementary materials, including bookplates, bookmarks, and posters, which embody the theme of "Pursuit of Happiness".

Congratulations to four JPL Libraries for receiving the 2006-07 We the People Bookshelf "Pursuit of Happiness"! Programs promoting these titles will be conducted in libraries between May 1, 2007 and April 30, 2008. For more information about related programs and the books, please contact the library.

• Main Library, Teen Department
• Maxville Branch Library
• Pablo Creek Regional Library
• South Mandarin Regional Library

EDSITEment Lessons for We the People Bookshelf 2006 Books

Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=240

Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=237

Morality "Tails" East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=593

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

Poems That Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=345

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia (9-12)

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=443

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Secret Society and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=432

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=427

Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=428

Book Titles

Kindergarten to Grade 3

• Aesop's Fables by Aesop
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
• Mike Mulligan y Su Máquina Maravillosa by Virginia Lee Burton (translated by Yanitzia Canetti)
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

Grades 4 to 6

• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• Tuck para siempre by Natalie Babbitt (translated by Narcis Fradera)
• The Great Migration by Jacob Lawrence
• These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• 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 Muñoz Ryan
• Esperanza Renace by Pam Muñoz Ryan (translated by Nuria Molinero)

Grades 9 to 12

• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
• Pioneros by Willa Cather (translated by Gema Moral Bartolomé)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman