Mengle Memorial Library

The Brockway Library is proud to announce that we have won the "Picturing America" grant provided by the American Libraries Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

           

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