7th Grade through 8th Grade
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

9th Grade through 12th Grade
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin edited by Louis P. Masur
Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie by Ole Edvart Rølvaag
*La Muerte Llama al Arzobispo by Willa Cather

"Freedom"

These books were provided to the LaGrange Branch Library as part of the
National Endowment for the Humanities' We the People Bookshelf grant in 2005.

* denotes titles in Spanish

Kindergarten through 3rd Grade
Sam The Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
*El Cuento del Conejo Pedro by Beatrix Potter

4th Grade through 6th Grade
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
*Cronicas de Narnia - El Leon, La Bruja y El Ropero by C. S Lewis

7th Grade through 8th Grade
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
*Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

9th Grade through 12th Grade
Miracle In Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen
My Antonia by Willa Cather
*Mi Antonia by Willa Cather
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Courage"

These books were provided to the Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library as part of the
National Endowment for the Humanities' We the People Bookshelf grant in 2004.

Kindergarten through 3rd Grade
The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

4th Grade through 6th Grade
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

7th Grade through 8th Grade
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein

9th Grade through 12th Grade
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee