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