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Great Books to Read
Reading is one of the great joys of life.  Here are some great authors and titles to help fourth graders get started in a great book.  The important thing is to read, read, read!

AUTHOR                                    TITLE

Angelou, Maya                    My Painted House

Armstrong, William              Sounder

Avi                                    Blue Heron

Crispin, the Cross of Lead

Night Journeys

The Fighting Ground

Ragweed

Bailey, Carolyn                    Miss Hickory

Banks, Lynn Reid                 The Fairy Rebel

Blume, Judy                        Blubber

Freckle Juice

Superfudge and

any of the Fudge series

Bond, Michael                     A Bear Called Paddington

Bridges, Ruby                     Through My Eyes

Brink, Carol R.                    Caddie Woodlawn

Butterworth, Olive               The Enormous Egg

Byars, Betsy                       Bingo Brown series

Blossoms series

Coast to Coast

The Summer of the Swans

The Computer Nut

The Cybil War

The Dark Stairs

The Night Swimmers

Tornado

Caudill, Rebecca                  Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley?

Caudill, Rebecca                   Tree of Freedom

Christopher, Matt                Dirt Bike Racer

The Fox Steals Home

Ice Magic

Long Stretch at First Base

No Arm in the Left Field

Skateboard Tough

Cleary, Beverly                    Beezus and Ramona 

                                        (any of the series )

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Ellen Tebbits

Henry Huggins (any

of the series)

Muggie Maggie

Socks

Strider

Clements, Andrew               Janitor's Boy

Coerr, Eleanor                     Sadako and the

                                        Thousand Paper Cranes

Colfer, Eoin                         Artemis Fowl   (series)

Colville, Ann                        My Teacher Fried My Brains

Colville, Bruce                     I Was a Sixth Grade Alien

Creech, Sharon                    Bloomability

Love That Dog

Walk Two Moons

Curtis, Christopher              Bud, Not Buddy

Curtis, Christopher              The Watsons Go

                                        to Birmingham

Cutler, Jane                        No Dogs Allowed

Dahl, Roald                        The B.F.G.

Esio Trot

Witches (and any

other book by Roald Dahl)

Davidson, Margaret              The Story of Jackie Robinson, the Bravest Man In Baseball

DeCamillo, Kate                 Because of Winn Dixie

                                       The Tale of Despereaux

Denenberg, Barry               Stealing Home: A Story

                                       of Jackie Robinson

Edmonds, Walter                The Matchlock Gun

Estes, Eleanor                    The Moffats   (series)

Fitzhugh, Louise                 Harriet the Spy

Fleischman, Paul                 Bull Run

Fritz, Jean                         And Then What

                                       Happened, Paul Revere?

                                       Can't You Make

                                       Them Behave, King George?

                                       Shh! We're Writing

                                       the Constitution

                                       The Double Life of

                                       Pocahontas

                                       What's the Big Idea,

                                       Ben Franklin?

                                       Where Do You Think

                                       You're Going, Columbus?

Gardiner, John                    Stone Fox

Giff, Patricia                      Lily's Crossing

                                       Nory Ryan's Song

 

Gipson, Fred                     Old Yeller

Gutman, Dan                    Honus and Me

Haywood, Carolyn             Betsy    (series, any books)

                                      The Eddie   (series)

Henry, Marguerite              Black Gold

                                      King of the Wind (series)

Hiaasen, Carl                    Hoot

Holling, Holling                 Paddle-to-the Sea

Howe, Deborah                 Bunnicula

Howe, James                    Howliday Inn

Hughes, Langston             The Dreamkeeper and

                                      other Poems

Hunter, Mollie                   The Mermaid Summer

Hurwitz, Johanna               Aldo  (any in the series)

Jacques, Brian                   Redwall   (series)

Jerry Spinelli,                    Wringer

Joseph, Lynn                     The Color of My Words

Juster, Norton                   The Phantom Tollbooth

King-Smith, Dick                Pigs Might Fly

Konigsburg, E. L.               From the Mixed-Up Files of

                                              Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Krumgold, Joseph              Onion John

Lawson, Robert                 Ben and Me

L'Engle, Madeleine            A Wind in the Door

                                     A Wrinkle in Time (series)

Levers, Gail Carson           Ella Enchanted

Lewis, C. S.                     Chronicles of Narnia  (series)

Lindgren, Astrid                Pippi Longstocking   (series)

Lovelace, Maud Hart          Betsy-Tacy   (series)

Lowry, Lois                      All About Sam

                                     Anastasia   (series)

                                     Attaboy, Sam

                                     Number the Stars

MacLachlan, Patricia         Sarah, Plain and Tall

Martin, Rafe                    Rough Face Girl

McDonald, Betty              Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle  (series)

Mochizuki, Ken                Baseball Saved Us

Naylor, Phyllis                 Beetles Lightly Toasted

                                    Saving Shiloh

Norton, Mary                   The Borrowers    (series)

O'Dell, Scott                   Sing Down the Moon

Park, Linda Sue               A Single Shard

Peck, Richard                  A Long Way From Chicago

                                    A Year Down Under

                                    Voices After Midnight

Peck, Robert Newton        Soup  (series)

Porter, Eleanor                Pollyanna

Reid Banks, Lynn          The Indian in the Cupboard

Reilly Giff, Patricia        Fourth Grade Celebrity

                                  Pictures of Hollis Woods

Robinson, Barbara       The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Rockwell, Thomas        How to Eat Fried Worms

Rowling, J. K.              Harry Potter (series)

Ryan, Pam                  Esperanza Rising

Rylant, Cynthia           A Blue-Eyed Daisy

Sachar, Louis              Holes

                                Sixth Grade Secrets

                             There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom

                                Wayside School is Falling Down

 

Various authors        Dear America (series) 

Scieska, Jon            Summer Reading Is Killing Me

                             The Stinky Cheese Man and

                             Other Fairly Stupid Tales

 

Silverstein, Shel        Falling Up

                              The Giving Tree

Simon, Seymour        Big Cats

Snicket, Lemony        Bad Beginning (series)

Sobol, Donald J.        Encyclopedia Brown  (series)

Sperry, Armstrong      Call It Courage

Spinelli, Jerry            Fourth Grade Rats

                              Stargirl

                              Knots in My Yo-Yo String

Steig, William           The Real Thief

Stein, R.Conrad         Ellis Island

                             The Underground Railroad

Taylor, Mildred         Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Taylor, Syndey         All-of-a-Kind Family series

Voight, Cynthia        Bad, Badder, Baddest

Warner, Gertrude Chandler  

                             The Boxcar Children  (series)

White, E. B.             Charlotte's Web

                              Stuart Little

                              The Trumpet of the Swan

Wilder, Laura Ingalls   The Little House  (series)

Yolen, Jane               Devil's Arithmetic

                              The Dragon's Boy

                               Twelve Impossible Things

                               Before Breakfast

 

Angelou, Maya           My Painted House

 

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