Our reading program will be composed of novels, also called trade books, the Weekly Reader, a kids' news magazine, and selected stories from a our reading text.  Books that I will be choosing from for this school year are listed below.  Please keep in mind that we will not read all of them.  These are just the selections I have access to in a whole class set.  Your child will be given his own paperback and will be responsible for returning it in good condition at the end of the novel study.

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Shiloh Season by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain
Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen
The Littles by John Peterson
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume