BLANCHARD WILL RECEIVE BOOKS
FROM "WE THE PEOPLE BOOKSHELF"
The Blanchard Media Center is one of 3,000 libraries across the country
selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American
Library Association (ALA) to receive free hardcover editions of 17 classic
books from the first
We the People Bookshelf. The theme of this year’s bookshelf
is “Created Equal.”
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. Selected public and school libraries in all 50 states
each will receive a set of the 21 books (including Spanish translations of
four of the titles), posters, bookmarks, bookplates from the NEH and the
ALA, “History in a Box” resource materials on Abraham Lincoln from the
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and access to online planning
and promotional materials. Participating libraries will present programs on
the theme of “Created Equal” for their students or library patrons. The
Blanchard Media Center will present the collection at the May 13, 2008, PTA
meeting and again at the fall PTA meeting.
For more information about We the People Bookshelf programs at Blanchard
Elementary School, contact Kristine Mitchell, 706-748-2461 or kdmitchell@mcsdga.net.
More information about the We the People Bookshelf project is available at
http://publicprograms.ala.org/bookshelf.
