Historical focus: Early American Civilizations; European Exploration, Trade, Colonization; The Renaissance & Reformation; England from the Golden Age to Glorious Revolution; Russia -Early Growth & Expansion; Feudal Japan; American Westward Expansion; Civil War; Native Americans (CK & Program Guide)

• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) – summer reading
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
• Don Quixote, CK Adapted (Miguel de Cervantes) 
• Little Women (Louisa May Alcott, CK ed.)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass, CK ed.)
• Tales of Sherlock Holmes, including “The Red-Headed League” (Arthur Conan Doyle, CK ed.)
• Prince Caspian (C.S. Lewis)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare) (No Fear Ed.)
• A Tale of the Oki Islands (a legend from Japan, also known as “The Samurai’s Daughter”)
• Morning Star and Scarface: the Sun Dance (a Plains Native American legend, also known as “The Legend of Scarface”)
• Native American trickster stories (for example, tales of Coyote, Raven, or Grandmother Spider)