Literature By Stage and Time Period

Literature Requirements & Read-Alouds


Year Four, Grammar Stage
     Covering the years 1850 to the present in history

Independent Reading
Little Women
Invincible Louisa
Caddie Woodlawn
adaptation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Gentle Annie
Not With Our Blood
Old Yeller
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
Heidi
Pinocchio
The World of Peter Rabbit (all of the original little books, in order)
The Red Fairy Book
Peter Pan
Cheaper By the Dozen
Hero Over Here
The Enchanted Castle
A Christmas Carol
Thimble Summer
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
The War of the Worlds
Journey to America
Snow Treasure
Escape from Warsaw
Twenty and Ten
Number the Stars
Code Talker
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot
Miracles on Maple Hill
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
The Cricket in Times Square
The Twenty-One Balloons
The Wall
A Year Down Yonder
Plain Girl
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Maniac Magee
The Wind in the Willows
Oxford Book of Illustrated Children's Poems
selected poems of Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, and Carl Sandburg

Read-Alouds
Sing Down the Moon
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Hobbit
"The Gift of the Magi"
The Hunt for Red October
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