- January The Chosen by Chaim Potok
- February Little Britches by Ralph Moody
- March The Giver by Lois Lowry (Optional: Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son)
- April Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
- May David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- June The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
- July "The Getttysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln and "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" by Patrick Henry
- August Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster
- September A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
- October Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth
- November Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter
- December A Christmas Carol
