Grade 4
Recommended Books
Good books for Grade 4:
11 Birthdays, Mass
101 Ways to Bug your Parents, Wardlaw
Abduction, Kehret
Babe and Me+, Gutman
Bear Named Trouble, Bauer
Because of Winn-Dixie, DiCamillo
BFG, Dahl
Bobby vs. Girls, Yee*
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister+,
Nimmo
City of Ember, DuPrau
Closed for the Season, Hahn
Dark Hills Divide+, Carman
Dear Mr. Henshaw, Cleary
Deep, Dark, and Dangerous, Hahn
Dicey’s Song, Voigt
Doll People, Martin
Door in the Lake, Butts
Dragon Rider, Funke
Eleven, Giff
Ella Enchanted, Levine
Esperanza Rising, Ryan
Everything on a Waffle, Horvath
Following Fake Man, Holmes
Free Baseball, Corbett
Frindle, Clements
Fudge-a-mania, Blume
Good Dog, Avi
Goosed, Wallace
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup, Creech
Gregor the Overlander+, Collins
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone+,
Rowland
Holes, Sachar
Homeless Bird, Whelan
The Homework Machine, Gutman
How to eat fried worms, Rockwell
Ida B., Hannigan
Iron Thunder, Avi
Island of the Aunts, Ibbotson
Jackie’s Wild Seattle, Hobbs
+Jennifer Murdley’s Toad, Coville
+Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher,
Coville
Joshua’s Song, Harlow
Kensuke’s Kingdom, Morpugo
+Knights of the Kitchen Table, Scieszka
Lightning Thief+, Riordan
London Eye Mystery, Dowd
Made You Look, Roberts
Maniac Magee, Spinellli
McMummy, Byars
MVP: Magellan Voyage Project, Evans
Mick Harte Was Here, Park
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane,
DiCamillo
Monsters of Morley Manor, Coville
My Teacher is an Alien, Coville
Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine, Stanley
Night of the Howling Dogs, Salisbury
Nim’s Island, Orr
No Talking, Clements
On My Honor, Bauer
Perloo the Bold, Avi
Prince of the Pond, Napoli
Power of Un, Etchemendy
Regarding the Fountain, Klise
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief, Van
Draanen
Savvy, Law
+Secret Identity, Van Draanen
Shakespeare Stealer, Blackwood
Skeleton Man, Bruchac
Snow Spider+, Nimmo
Strider, Cleary
Summer of the Swans, Byars
Tale of Desperaux-DiCamillo
Three Good Deeds, Vande Velde
Thunder From the Sea, Harlow
Trial by Jury Journal, Klise
True Meaning of Smekday, Rex
Wringer, Spinelli
Young Man and the Sea, Philbrick
Whipping Boy, Fleischman
White Star, Dog on the Titanic, Crisp
Stink, McDonald
Time Warp Trio, Scieszka
Underland Chronicles, Collins
Classics
A Bear Called Paddington, Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory, Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl
The Hundred Dresses, Estes
My Father’s Dragon, Gannett
Margery Williams's The Velveteen Rabbit,
or, How toys become real, Fancher
Picture Books:
Bats at the Beach, Lies
Berlioz the Bear, Brett
Bracelet, Uchida
Casey Back at Bat, Gutman
Cats in Krasinski Square, Hesse
Chicken Sunday, Polacco
Dear Mrs. LaRue, Teague
Dia's Story Cloth: The Hmong People's
Journey of Freedom, Cha
The Eleventh Hour, a Curious Mystery,
Base
Enigma: A Magical Mystery, Base *
Grandfather's Journey, Say
Kat Kong: starring Flash, Rabies, and
Dwayne and introducing Blueberry as
the monster, Pilkey
The Keeping Quilt, Polacco
Library Lil, Williams
Meteor, Polacco
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughers, Steptoe
Night of the Gargoyles, Bunting
Nine Lives of Rotten Ralph, Gantos *
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam,
Myers
A Picnic in October, Bunting
Pink and Say, Polacco
Thank You Mr. Falker, Polacco
Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Fairies, Paquette *
Favorite Series for Grade 4
39 Clues
A to Z Mysteries, Roy
Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls, Cabot
Amber Brown, Danziger
American Girls
Animal Ark, Baglio
Baseball Card Adventures, Gutman
Cam Jansen, Adler
Chet Gecko, Hale
Cam Jansen, Adler
Children of the Red King, Nimmo
Clementine, Pennypacker
Franny K. Stein, Benton
Harry Potter, Rowling
Horrible Harry, Kline
Jigsaw Jones, Preller
Judy Moody, McDonald
Land of Elyon, Carman
Magic Shop, Coville
Magic Tree House, Osborne
Matt Christopher sports stories
Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Riordan
Puppy Patrol, Dale
Ramona, Cleary
Rowan of Rin, Rodda
Secrets of Droon, Abbott
Sammy Keyes, Van Draanen
Series of Unfortunate Events, Snicket
Shredderman, Van Draanen
Spiderwick Chronicles, DiTerlizzi
Fairy Tales/Folk Tales
3 Bears and Goldilocks, Willey
Cendrillon : a Caribbean Cinderella, San
Souci
Crazy horse's vision, Bruchac
Gingerbread Girl, Ernst
Glass slipper, Gold Sandal: a Worldwide
Cinderella, Fleischman
Hinky Pink: An Old Tale, McDonald
John Henry, Lester
Korean Cinderella, Climo
Little Red Riding Hood, Pinkney
Rapunzel, Zelinsky
Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter, Stanley
Nonfiction
All about sharks. Arnosky
Animal Zone, Chmielewski
Examining backyard habitats, King
George Did It, Jurmain
Listen to the wind: the story of Dr. Greg
and the three cups of tea, Mortenson*
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers,
Gerstein
Moonshot: the Flight of Apollo 11, Floca *
Nic Bishop Frogs, Bishop
One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest
Sharks: Biggest! Littlest! Markle *
Siberian Huskies, Temple
Sneaky, Spinning, Baby Spiders, Markle *
So You Want to Be President, St. George
The Story of Ruby Bridges, Coles
Volcanoes, Branley
What’s so Bad About Gasoline? Rockwell *
Biographies
26 Fairmount Avenue, DePaola
Abe’s Honest Words, Rappaport *
Barack Obama : son of promise, child of
hope, Grimes
Beverly Cleary, Meister
Big George: How a Shy Boy Became
President, Rockwell*
Eli Manning, DiPrimio*
George Washington’s Mother, Fritz
Johnny Appleseed, Yolen*
A Man for all Seasons: the life of George
Washington Carver, Krensky
Minty: A story of Harriet Tubman,
Schroeder
When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat,
Weinstein *
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?
Winter*
Poetry
A Light in the Attic, Silverstein
Meet Danitra Brown, Grimes
New Kid on the Block, Prelutsky
Sing a Song of Popcorn, deRegniers
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Silverstein
*new
+Part of a series
Mrs. Pettersen’s favorites!!