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 * CN Media Specialist**: Deb Shirar[[image:PicBooks.JPG width="218" height="271" align="right"]]
 * Albion Library Assistant**: Katie Knox

December Newsletter

Shared via e-mail on April 20, 2008

The “Created Equal ” Bookshelf provides opportunities for young people to explore what the Revolutionary generation meant when it declared that “all men are created equal.” What challenges has America faced, and where has it shown progress, in its efforts to live up to the ideal of universal human equality? How did Abraham Lincoln, whose bicentennial we celebrate in 2009, contribute to the idea and the reality of human equality in America? The Bookshelf—a collection of seventeen classic hardcover books for young readers, all related to the Created Equal theme. In addition, libraries will receive four of these books in Spanish translation, a bonus “History in a Box” on Abraham Lincoln resource kit created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and supplementary materials for programming, including bookplates, bookmarks, and posters. NEH will award a “Created Equal” Bookshelf to 3,000 school (K-12) and public libraries in spring 2007.

Books selected for the “Created Equal” Bookshelf are:

Kindergarten to Grade 3

 * //The Ugly Duckling //by Hans Christian Andersen
 * //The Gettysburg Address // by Abraham Lincoln
 * //Pink and Say // by Patricia Polacco
 * //Pink Y Say // by Patricia Polacco (translated by Alejandra Lopez Varela)

Grades 4 to 6

 * //Saturnalia // by Paul Fleischman
 * //Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence // by Russell Freedman
 * //Lincoln ////<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: A Photobiography //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Russell Freedman
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Virginia Hamilton
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lyddie //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Katherine Paterson
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lyddie //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Katherine Paterson (translated by Rosa Benavides)

Grades 7 to 8

 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Elijah of Buxton //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Christopher Paul Curtis
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Russell Freedman
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Abraham Lincoln the Writer: A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches and Letters ed. //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Harold Holzer
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Breaking Through //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Francisco Jiménez
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Senderos Fronterizos: Breaking Through Spanish Edition //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Francisco Jiménez

Grades 9 to 12

 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">by Natalie S. Bober
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">That All People May Be One People, Send Rain to Wash the Face of the Earth //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Nez Perce Chief Joseph
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Flowers for Algernon //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> by Daniel Keyes
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Flores ////<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Para Algerno //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">n by Daniel Keyes (translated by Paz Barroso)
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">by William Lee Miller
 * //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Amistad: //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> A Novel by David Pesci

Bonus :
//<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: #34342e; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> History in a Box //<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: #34342e; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> resource materials on Abraham Lincoln developed by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, including a resource book, CD, interactive CD-ROM, and posters featuring primary source documents, photographs, artwork, maps, songs, and other teaching resources. NEH selected these books in consultation with members of the ALA and members of the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC), a division of the ALA.