Proud, industrious, creative, generous, and patriotic--that's the spirit of America! In this collection of 101 stories about the spirit of America and what makes our country great, you'll read about: America's heroes--service members, military families, veterans, and first responders 9/11 fifteen years later--the families, the rescuers, the air traffic controllers who were on duty, the spirit of a united nation in the days that followed Our vast and beautiful land--from beaches to mountains, from tropics to desert Traditions--from baseball to apple pie to parades to our national parks American ingenuity, from the space program to made-in-America to our can-do attitude Our generosity and compassion-- we are a nation of helping hands Our diversity and our proud new citizens The red, white, and blue--our flag and what it means to us