Macleod Andrews, Olivia DuFord, Dion Graham, Lizann Mitchell, Christopher Myers, Walter Dean Myers, Johanna Parker, Adriana Sananes, Kaipo Schwab.
Contents:
Before there was America -- Before I knew that there was America -- I found an endless land -- Before there was an America -- We called ourselves Bostonians -- We raised up factories and farms, great houses and small -- We were willing to die to forge our dream -- Like clumsy children we fell -- We moved on stubbornly -- We were machines belching smoke -- We were the flat gold plains of Kansas -- We are America -- And from the tensions -- To each child a freedom dream.
Summary:
A commemorative history of American and its people, told in free verse.
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