Sir Cumference and the First Round Table (Neuschwander 1997)
Math Curse (Scieszka and Smith (ill.), 1995)

Science:

Dinosaurs (Unwin 1997)
One Giant Leap (Ran 1996)
Your Amazing Senses (van der Meer 1987)
Postcards from Pluto (Leedy 1992)…astronomy

History:

Across the Wide Dark Sea, The Mayflower Journey. (Van Leeuwan 1995)
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp (Stanley 1992)
The Gettysburg Address. (Lincoln 1995)
The Wall (Bunting, 1990)…war & prejudice
A Picture Book of Anne Frank (Adler 1993) war & prejudices

Biographies:

Charles Dickens, The Man Who Had Great Expectations. (Stanley and Vennema 1993)
Emily. (Bedard 1992)
A Picture Book of Helen Keller. (Adler 1990)
A Picture Book of Anne Frank (Adler 1993)

Character Traits:

A Day's Work (Bunting, 1990)…integrity

Reading:

I Hate To Read (Marshall 1993)…literary development; what reading does for the reader and what makes a good story.

Writing:

The Jolly Postman (Ahlberg 1996)…unit on writing
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Van Allsburg 1984)…inspire imagination (no text)

Life Issues:

I Never Knew Your Name (Garland 1993) about a boy who didn't reach out to another teen who committed suicide
One Flick of a Finger (Loribecki 1996) about a boy with a gun at school and the disaster which follows
The House That Crack Built (Taylor 1992) about drug use

Language Comparisons:

The Wedding Ghost (L. Garfield)
Randy Malone and the Nine O'Clock Tiger (B. Bolton)

Poetry:

Jabberwocky (G. Base)
The Quangle Wangle Hat (H Oxenbury)

Character Studies:

The Very Worst Monster (P Hutchins)
The Hard Times Jar (E Footman Smothers)