Pursuit of Happiness

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Great Migratio: An American Story by Jacob Lawrence
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung by Laurence Yep
                                                                                                         
Becoming American

Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman
The People Could Fly” The Picture Book by Virginia Hamilton
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord

Freedom

The House of Dies Drear By Virginia Hamilton
Ben and Me by Robert Lawson
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Picturing America

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