AngieW's Supplemental booklist for SL4 

This is my tentative schedule for extra readers for my 9yo voracious 
reader to go through. I have not pre-read all of these books yet, 
but do intend to before she reads them. We won't be starting SL4 
until September, so I've got plenty of time. The books with an '*' 
next to them are books I've already read. 

Usually the books are listed for a range of weeks whose topics fit 
the book, but sometimes the book just fits there chronologically. 
Some of the books fit a wide time-frame. 

wks 1-16 *Running Out of Time (Haddix) This is a fun story. A girl 
living in Clifton Village in 1840 finds out that it's really 1996. 
It's supposed to be a living history museum. Diptheria has struck 
and they aren't getting modern medicines like they used to. Jessie 
has to get a message to the outside world. 

wks 1-4 Thunder Rolling in the Mountains (O'Dell and Hall) The story 
of what happens to the Nez Perce when gold seekers come. Set in 1877 
and narrated by Chief Joseph's 14yo daughter. 

wks 1-6 *Lyddie (Paterson) Lyddie's father went to look for work and 
never came back. Lyddie's mother leaves with the youngest child to 
stay with her brother who is certain the Apocalypse is coming soon. 
Lyddie and her brother are hired out as servants. Lyddie escapes and 
goes to work in the cloth factories in Lowell, MA. She hopes to earn 
enough money to reunite the family. 

wks 4-6 Brady (Fritz) Brady discovers that a neighbor is helping 
runaway slaves and tells his father. Later he learns his father's 
role, but his father won't let him help because his father doesn't 
trust him to keep a secret. 

wks 7-11 Wishbone Classics: Red Badge of Courage (Burgan) Wishbone 
version of Stepen Crane's book. 

wks 7-11 Charley Skedaddle (Beatty) This used to be an SL4 book. 
After his brother is killed at Gettysburg, Charley joins the Union 
Army as a drummer boy. He dreams of revenge, but when he sees his 
best friend killed, he deserts. 

wks 7-11 The Root Cellar (Lunn) 12yo Rose is unhappy in her new home and 
hides down in the root cellar, but when she comes back up the stairs 
it's the 1860's and America is in the midst of the Civil War. 

wks 12-16 The Last Warrior (Ellison) I'm still not sure about using this 
one. It may be too mature. Based on the true story of Geronimo's 
Chiricahua Apaches, it tells of a teenage brave coming of age and torn 
between two worlds. 

wks 13-18 *Little House on the Prarie series (Wilder) 

wk 16 The Story of Sitting Bull (Eisenberg) biography of Sitting Bull 

wk 16 or later Magical Melons (Brink) sequel to Caddie Woodlawn 

wks 16-17 *The Orphan of Ellis Island (Woodruff) Dominic goes with his 
school class on a field trip to Ellis Island. He gets embarassed when 
he is asked if any of his ancestors came through Ellis Island because 
he is an orphan. He runs away and hides from the tour group and ends up 
getting left alone on the island. He looks through all the pictures and 
plaques at the museum. He falls asleep and is in 1908 Italy when he 
wakes up. 

wk 18 or later Big Red (Kjelgaard) Danny and his Irish setter have 
adventures in the Wintapi wilderness. 

wks 18-23 *Understood Betsy (Fisher) An excellent book used in SL1 that 
is well worth revisiting, set in the early 1900s. 

wk 18 or later *Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls) This used to be an SL4 
book. Billy goes 'coon hunting with Old Dan and Little Ann, his two dogs. 

wk 24 Mary on Horseback (Wells) Three true stories of Mary Breckinridge's 
adventures as a nurse during WWI. 

wk 24 *Letters from Rifka (Hesse) Rifka and her family are escaping from 
Russia's harsh treatment of Jews for a new life in America. The doctors 
refuse to let Rifka board the ship because she has ringworm. Her family 
must leave without her. 

wks 24, 29 Susan B. Anthony (Monsell) Childhood of Famous Americans 
series 

wk 26 Jacob's Rescue (Drucker and Halperin) True story of a Jewish boy 
who was saved from the Holocaust by a Christian man who posed as his "uncle". 

wks 25-26 Journey to America (Levitin) Lisa Platt's family tries to 
escape Nazi Germany for America. The father sends the family to 
Switzerland to wait until he has enough money to send them all to America. 

wk 27 *A Long Way Home (Graff) I just finished reading this a few days 
ago. It's an excellent book. 12yo Riley has just moved with his mother 
from New York to the small mountain town of Sharon, VT. His father and 
baby sister were killed when they were struck by a car several years 
earlier. His mother starts dating Sam, a conscientous objector in 
Vietnam. Riley is disgusted with Sam, sure that Sam is a coward. Riley 
finds out that his great-great-great grandfather fought in the Civil 
War. He starts researching to uncover the role of his ancestor, certain 
that he was a great hero. quote from back of the book: "A shocking 
revelation forces him to reexamine his ideas not only about courage, 
heroism, and the morality of war but also about the consequences of 
living by one's convictions." 

wk 27 *scrapbook about my dh's grandfather who died in Korean War - A 
few years ago, one of the men in my dh's grandfather's unit brought a 
scrapbook that he had made to the Morrow family reunion.