Grade 4 - Adventure ISBN: 9780061836862 Title: Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce - Liam Digby is so unusually tall that people think he should act like an adult, which leads him to compete against adults for a chance to go into space Author: Cottrell Boyce, Frank. ISBN: 0375814248 Title: James and the giant peach by Roald Dahl - A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach Author: Dahl, Roald. ISBN: 0152020691 Title: Half magic by Edward Eager - Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes Author: Eager, Edward. ISBN: 9780689205866 Title: From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg - Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home Author: Konigsburg, E. L. ISBN: 9780395069622 Title: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell - Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance Author: O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. ISBN: 9780439813785 Title: The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick - After his father’s death, 12-year-old Hugo finds himself living within the walls of a Paris train station, determined to restore his father’s robot-like structure Author: Selznick, Brian. Grade 4 - Animals ISBN: 0316058424 Title: Mr. Popper's penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater - The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obessed by dreams of the Polar regions Author: Atwater, Richard. ISBN: 9780763650070 Title: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo - Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie Author: DiCamillo, Kate. ISBN: 9780763660406 Title: Flora & Ulysses : the illuminated adventures by Kate DiCamillo - Comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being rescued Author: DiCamillo, Kate, author. ISBN: 0690039832 Title: Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner - Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters Author: Gardiner, John Reynolds. ISBN: 0786820292 Title: The school mouse by Dick King-Smith - Flora, the world's most educated mouse, saves her family during a crisis Author: King-Smith, Dick. ISBN: 9780689316142 Title: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - When 11-year-old Marty finds a mistreated beagle pup, he has to face tough questions. Should he return the dog to its owner, only to have the animal abused again? Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. ISBN: 0689206518 Title: Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien - Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived Author: O'Brien, Robert C. ISBN: 0374316503 Title: The cricket in Times Square by George Selden - The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat Author: Selden, George, 1929- ISBN: 0060282983 Title: Charlotte's web by E.B. White - Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him Author: White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985. Grade 4 - Science Fiction and Fantasy ISBN: 9781419715174 Title: The strange case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger - Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight Author: Angleberger, Tom. ISBN: 9780316381994 Title: The wild robot by Peter Brown - Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there Author: Brown, Peter, 1979- author, illustrator. ISBN: 0374304696 Title: The BFG by Roald Dahl - Snatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants Author: Dahl, Roald. ISBN: 9780152062521 Title: Jeremy Thatcher, dragon hatcher by Bruce Coville - Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg Author: Coville, Bruce. ISBN: 0689307004 Title: Bunnicula : a rabbit tale of mystery by Deborah and James Howe - Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire Author: Howe, Deborah. ISBN: 0786823720 Title: The doll people by Ann M. Martin - A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor Author: Martin, Ann M., 1955- ISBN: 9780307977939 Title: Rump : the true story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff - Relates the tale of Rumpelstiltskin's childhood and youth, explaining why his name is so important, how he is able to spin straw into gold, and more Author: Shurtliff, Liesl. ISBN: 9780385906647 Title: When you reach me by Rebecca Stead - A twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space Author: Stead, Rebecca. Grade 4 - Historical Fiction ISBN: 9780399238611 Title: Al Capone does my shirts by Gennifer Choldenko - A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there Author: Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957- ISBN: 0786822414 Title: The birchbark house by Louise Erdrich - Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847 Author: Erdrich, Louise. ISBN: 0316285773 Title: By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman - Jack and the butler stow away on a side-wheeler bound for California where they join the Gold Rush of 1849 Author: Fleischman, Sid, 1920-2010 Title: Riding freedom by Pam Muñoz Ryan - A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance Author: Ryan, Pam Muñoz. ISBN: 9780545206983 Title: I survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Lauren Tarshis - Visiting his favorite Hawaiian beach when Japanese forces suddenly attack Pearl Harbor, eleven-year-old Danny Crane struggles through the smoke, destruction, and chaos to make his way home Author: Tarshis, Lauren. ISBN: 9780060264307 Title: Little house in the big woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder - A year on the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father’s stories and singing, and share special occasions Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. Grade 4 - Humorous ISBN: 9781419714917 Title: The terrible two by Mac Barnett - When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen Author: Barnett, Mac. ISBN: 0525469311 Title: Tales of a fourth grade nothing by Judy Blume - Fourth-grader Peter Hatcher’s little brother, Fudgie, is constantly meddling with Peter’s stuff and throwing tantrums. But the worst trouble comes when Fudge gets his hands on Peter’s pet turtle, Dribble Author: Blume, Judy. ISBN: 0688217214 Title: Ramona the pest by Beverly Cleary - Ramona works hard at being noticed in kindergarten Author: Cleary, Beverly. ISBN: 0375922423 Title: The Twits by Roald Dahl - The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys Author: Dahl, Roald. ISBN: 9781250026903 Title: The 13-story treehouse by Andy Griffiths - Follows the efforts of Andy and Terry to meet a latest book deadline despite numerous distractions in their sophisticated tree house home, including flying cats, giant bananas, and sea monsters Author: Griffiths, Andy, 1961- ISBN: 9780763660505 Title: Timmy Failure : mistakes were made by Stephan Pastis - Resolving to earn so much money that his mother will no longer stress out over the bills, eleven-year-old Timmy Failure launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear partner named Total Author: Pastis, Stephan. ISBN: 9780385746861 Title: Lawn boy by Gary Paulsen - Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business Author: Paulsen, Gary. ISBN: 9780440421856 Title: How to eat fried worms by Thomas Rockwell - A small boy is challenged by a friend to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days for fifty dollars Author: Rockwell, Thomas, 1933- ISBN: 9780316297790 Title: The Tapper twins go to war (with each other) by Geoff Rodkey - An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Author: Rodkey, Geoff, 1970- author. ISBN: 0688160867 Title: Sideways stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar - Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story Author: Sachar, Louis, 1954- Grade 4 - Mystery ISBN: 9781627791151 Title: Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman - Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets Author: Bertman, Jennifer Chambliss, ISBN: 0152024913 Title: This gum for hire : from the tattered casebook of Chet Gecko, private eye by Bruce Hale - Private eye Chet Gecko sets out to solve the mystery of Emerson Hicky Elementary School's disappearing football players Author: Hale, Bruce. ISBN: 9780803736702 Title: Three times lucky by Sheila Turnage - Washed ashore in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend, Dale, turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel seems implicated in a murder Author: Turnage, Sheila. Title: Sammy Keyes and the hotel thief by Wendelin Van Draanen - Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin. ISBN: 9780807508510 Title: The boxcar children by Gertrude Chandler Warner - The Aldens begin their adventure by making a home in a boxcar. Their goal is to stay together, and in the process they find a grandfather Author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-1979. ISBN: 9780553536058 Title: Home sweet motel by Chris Grabenstein - P.T. and his friend Gloria must solve a mystery at the world's wackiest motel: The Wonderland Author: Grabenstein, Chris, author. Grade 4 - Realistic Fiction ISBN: 9780689806698 Title: Frindle by Andrew Clements - When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control Author: Clements, Andrew, 1949- ISBN: 0152025359 Title: The Moffats by Eleanor Estes - Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut Author: Estes, Eleanor, 1906-1988. ISBN: 9780385327831 Title: Harriet, the spy by Louise Fitzhugh - Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge Author: Fitzhugh, Louise. ISBN: 0316060003 Title: The year of the dog by Grace Lin - Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life Author: Lin, Grace. ISBN: 9780439443821 Title: Rules by Cynthia Lord - Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic Author: Lord, Cynthia, author. ISBN: 9780375969027 Title: Wonder by R.J. Palacio - Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan Author: Palacio, R. J. ISBN: 0690013590 Title: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson - The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm Author: Paterson, Katherine. ISBN: 9780545846608 Title: Save me a seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan - Classmates Ravi, newly arrived from India and used to being a star student, and Joe, who's shy and struggles in class, alternately tell the story of their first week of fifth grade Author: Weeks, Sarah, author.
