Pursuit of Happiness

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
A Wrinkle in time by Madeleine L' Engle
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Becoming American

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

Freedom

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Picturing America

 

The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman

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