FOURTH GRADE SUMMER READING LIST
FOURTH GRADE SUMMER READING LIST
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
|---|---|
| FRESHLY MINTED | |
| Always remember me: How One Family Survived World War II | Philip Caputo The pictures in her family albums help Oma share memories with her granddaughter. A Holocaust story for younger readers. |
| Children of the Great Depression | Russell Freedman A revealing study of how children of that era lived, worked and played. Illustrated with many period photographs. |
| Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights | Jim Haskins Dignified paintings evoke the strength and courage of a lesser-known activist from Savannah. |
| Dreamer from the Village: the Story of Marc Chagall | Michelle Markel Exuberant illustrations enrich this account of the great 20th century Russian Jewish artist. |
| From Rags to Riches: a History of Girls' Clothing in America | Leslie Sills Calico aprons to poodle skirts to anything goes—a fashionable photographic exploration. |
| Hans Christian Andersen: His Fairy Tale Life | Hjordis Varmer An engaging biography of the beloved Danish storyteller who "saw a tale in everything he experienced." |
| Jose! Born to Dance: the Story of Jose Limon | Susanna Reich Graceful, luminous art complements this poetically told tale of a Mexican who became a master of modern dance. |
| The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H.A. Rey | Louise Borden The exciting true story of how the creators of everyone's favorite monkey escaped wartime Paris on homemade bicycles. |
| Wise Guy: the Life and Philosophy of Socrates | M.D. Usher An entertaining and enlightening introduction to one of the wisest men who ever lived. |
| A Kick in the Head: an Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms | Paul B. Janeczko An exuberantly illustrated introduction to haiku, triolets and more. |
| The Doll with the Yellow Star | Yona Zeldis McDonough With her beloved doll in hand, Claudine flees persecution in France in this poignant World War II story. |
| Grandma's General Store: the Ark | Dorothy Carter Prince and Pearl are cared for by their grandmother while their parents go North to start a new life. A heart-warming story set in Florida during the Great Depression. |
| Jigsaw Pony | Jessie Haas Twin sisters get their hearts' desire when they make a home for a lonely pony. |
| Mr. Chickee's Funny Money | Christopher Paul Curtis When Stephen is given a quadrillion dollar bill, a series of antic escapades follow including encounters with a slobbering dog and mysterious Treasury Department agents. |
| The Old Country | Mordicai Gerstein A girl and a fox switch bodies in this allegorical tale of war and peace. |
| A Room with a Zoo | Jules Feiffer Julie wants a dog, but instead gets a menagerie of fish, hamsters and reptiles, plus a cat who keeps throwing up, in this rib-tickling New York City tale. |
| TRIED AND TRUE | |
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
| Joan Aiken | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase |
| Vivien Alcock | Singer to the Sea God |
| Lloyd Alexander | The Cat Who Wished to be a Man |
| Mitsumasa Anno | Mysterious Multiplying Jar |
| William Armstrong | Sounder |
| Ave | Poppy and Rye |
| Natalie Babbitt | Goody Hall |
| Lynne Reid Banks | Indian in the Cupboard (series) |
| Carol Brink | Caddie Woodlawn |
| Bill Brittain | You choose the title |
| Bruce Brooks | Everywhere |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | A Little Princess: The Story of Sarah Crewe |
| Ashley Bryan | Beat the Story Drum, Pum Pum |
| Betsy Byars | The Eighteenth Emergency |
| Eleanor Cameron | That Julia Redfern |
| Peggy Christian | The Bookstore Mouse |
| Shirley Climo | Someone Saw a Spider: Spider Facts and Folktales |
| Jane Leslie Conly | Rasco and the Rats of the NIMH |
| Pam Conrad | Staying Nine |
| Susan Cooper | Over Sea Under Stone The Boggart |
| Scott Corbett | The Lemonade Trick |
| Bruce Coville | Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher: A Magic Book |
| Sharon Creech | Walk Two Moons |
| Christopher Paul Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy The Watsons go to Birmingham |
| Roald Dahl | Esio Trot Matilda |
| Paula Danziger | Forever, Amber Brown |
| Tomie dePaola | Tomie dePaola�s Book of Bible Stories |
| Marguerite DeAngeli | Door in the Wall |
| Meindert DeJong | You choose |
| Kate DiCamillo | Because of Winn Dixie |
| Eleanor Estes | The Moffats |
| Nancy Farmer | A Girl Named Disaster |
| Carol Fenner | Yolanda's Genius |
| Rachel Field | Calico Bush |
| Leonard Everett Fisher | The Great Wall of China |
| Louise Fitzhugh | Harriet the Spy |
| Paul Fleischman | Joyful Noise |
| Sid Fleischman | Midnight Whipping Boy |
| Paul Fox | The One-Eyed Cat |
| Russell Freedman | Sharks Out of Darkness of Louis Braille |
| Jean Fritz | The Double Life of Pocahontas |
| LouAnn Gaeddert | The Kid with the Red Suspenders |
| Ruth Stiles Gannett | The Reluctant Dragon |
| Leon Garfield | Young Nick and Jubilee |
| John Reynolds Gardiner | Top Secret |
| Jean Craighead George | One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest |
| Peggy Gifford | Moxy Maxwell Does not Love Stuart Little |
| Gish/Lane | An Actor's Life for Me |
| Rumer Godden | The Diddakoi The Valiant Chatti-maker Available at the public library |
| Sheila Greenwald | Give us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole |
| Mary Downing Hahn | The Doll in the Garden |
| Virginia Hamilton | The People Could Fly |
| Tim Hammond | Sports (Eyewitness Books) |
| Virginia Haviland | Favorite Fairy Tales Told Around the World |
| Marguerite Henry | You choose the title |
| Jennifer L. Holm | Our Only May Amelia |
| Deborah and James Howe | You choose the titles |
| Steven Kellogg | Sally Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett |
| Carol Kendall | Sweet and Sour: Tales from China |
| X. J. Kennedy | Fresh Brats |
| Frances Kennet | Looking at Paintings |
| Dick King-Smith | Ace, The Very Important Pig |
| E.L. Konigsburg | The View from Saturday |
| Jill Krementz | A Very Young Gymnast (series) |
| Nancy Larrick | Cats are Cats |
| Patricia Lauber | Dinosaurs Walked Here and Other Stories Fossils Tell Lost Star, The Story of Amelia Earhart |
| Carol Lerner | Backyard Birds of Summer |
| Julius Lester | The Last Tales of Uncle Remus |
| Gail Carson Levine | Ella Enchanted |
| C.S. Lewis | Narnia (series) |
| Anne Lindberg | The Hunky-Dory Dairy |
| Bette Bao Lord | In the Year of the Boar |
| Lois Lowry | Anastasia (series) All About Sam |
| David Macauley | Castle |
| Patricia MacLachlan | You choose the titles |
| Gregory Maguire | Seven Spiders Spinning |
| Anita Malnig | Where the Waves Break, Life at the Edge of the Sea |
| Sharon Bell Mathis | The Hundred Penny Box |
| Robert McCloskey | Centerburg Tales |
| Emily Arnold McCully | The Pirate Queen |
| Marie McSwigan | Snow Treasure |
| Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | The Grand Escape |
| Mary Norton | The Borrowers |
| Peggy Parish | Clues in the Woods |
| Barbara Park | The Kind in the Red Jacket |
| Katherine Paterson | The Great Gilly Hopkins |
| Richard Peck | A Year Down Under A Long Way from Chicago |
| Robert Newton | Peck Soup |
| Daniel Pinkwater | Fat Men from Space |
| Jack Prelutsky | Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem You choose the poetry collection |
| Philip Pullman | Clockwork—or All Wound Up |
| Johanna Reiss | Upstairs Room |
| Sally Ride with Susan Oakie | To Space and Back |
| Thomas Rockwell | How to Eat Fried Worms |
| Louis Sachar | Wayside School is Falling Down |
| Marianne Ssachs | Leonardo and his World |
| Jon Scieszka | Math Curse Science Verse |
| Anna Sewall | Black Beauty |
| Mary J. Shapiro | How They Built the Statue of Liberty |
| Margery Sharp | The Rescuers |
| Robin Simons | Recyclopedia—Games, Science Equipment and Crafts from Recycled Materials |
| Mary Francis Shura | Chester |
| Zilpha Keatley Snyder | The Egypt Game The Headless Cupid The Song of the Gargoyle |
| Elizabeth George Speare | Sign of the Beaver |
| Jerry Spinelli | Fourth Grade Rats |
| Johanna Spyri | Heidi |
| Diane Stanley | Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter |
| William Steig | Abel's Island |
| Mary Stoltz | The Bully of Barkham Street |
| Theodore Taylor | The Trouble with Tuck |
| Eve Titus | Basil of Baker Street |
| Chris Van Allsburg | Garden of Abdul Gasazi |
| Jean Van Leeuwen | The GREAT Summer Camp Catastrophe |
| Walter Wick | A Drop of Water |
| Elizabeth Winthrop | The Castle in the Attic |
| David Wisniewski | Rain Player |
| Patricia Wrede | Dealing with Dragons (series) |
| Jane Yolen | You choose the titles |
| Bernie Zubrowski | Messing Around with Baking Chemistry |