Reading Lists- Part II

Here is the reading list for Noah for the coming year.  He will be in 5th grade.  This list is really longer that what he will actually end up reading since there are times I will give him choices.  I have links to the really great books.

First Quarter


If You Lived With The Indians Of The Northwest Coast

The Double Life of Pocahontas

The Landing of the Pilgrims


The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Childhood of Famous Americans: Daniel Boone

The Foundling

Traitor in the Tower

Literature analysis: Indian in the Cupboard

Second Quarter

I, Juan de Pareja

Justin Morgan had a Horse

The Gold-Laced Coat


Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George?

And then what happened, Paul Revere?
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold

The American Revolution

Literature analysis: Island of the Blue Dolphins

Third Quarter

Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution

Why not, Lafayette?

Simon Bolivar


Peter the Great

Imprisoned in the Golden City


Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman

Literature Analysis: Carry On, Mr. Bodwitch

What are you Figuring now, Benjamin Banneker?


Fourth Quarter

Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American West

The Journeyman

If you lived with the Cherokee

Amistad Rising

Amazing Impossible Erie Canal (Aladdin Picture Books)

Moccasin Trail

The Boy in the Alamo

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille

Literature analysis: Where the Red Fern Grows