'We The People: Created Equal'
Through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association in 2008, the South Plainfield Public Library received a special collection titled 'We The People: Created Equal', focusing on the idea of equality in American history and culture. Some of these titles are no longer held by the South Plainfield Public Library, but are available through LMxAC.
NOTE: Some of the titles listed below are also available in Spanish, and some may also be available in ebook format from from eLibraryNJ, Freading, and/or Hoopla.
Grades K-3
- The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
- The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
- 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 UPDATED LINK by Katherine Paterson
Grades 7-8
- Abraham Lincoln the Writer: A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches and Letters edited by Harold Holzer
- Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez.
- Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
- Saturnalia by Paul Fleishman
YOUNG ADULT
- 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
ADULT
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller
- Amistad: A Novel by David Pesci
- History in a Box on Abraham Lincoln (DVDS, CD-ROMS, etc.)
