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Fourth Grade Reading Suggestions
The following are suggestions for fourth grade reading level. Clicking on a book title will take you to the library catalog, where you can request the book or learn more information about it. Want even more reading suggestions? Ask a librarian.
| Location | Title / Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| J & Pbk / Atw | Mr. Popper's Penguins Atwater, Richard | Mr. Popper has to get a penguin from the zoo to keep his homesick penguin company. |
| J & Pbk / Ban | The Fairy Rebel Banks, Lynne Reid | A rebellious fairy named Tiki, already in trouble for breaking the rule against wearing jeans, risks the further wrath of the Fairy Queen by trying to fulfill a human's special request for help. |
| J & Pbk / Blu | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Blume, Judy | Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother, Fudge, to be an ever-increasing problem. (series) |
| J / Chi | Utterly me, Clarice Bean Child, Lauren | When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective. |
| J / Cle | Henry Huggins Cleary, Beverly | When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed, humorous adventures follow. |
| J / Cle | The Report Card Clements, Andrew | Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control. |
| J / Chr | Skateboard Tough Christopher, Matt | Brett finds a skateboard and is able to do tricks he has never done before. |
| J & Pbk / Dah | George's Marvelous Medicine Dahl, Roald | George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch and concocts some marvelous medicine to take care of her. |
| J & Pbk / Dic | Because of Winn-Dixie DiCamillo, Kate | 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. |
| J / Dit | The Field Guide (Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1) DiTerlizzi, Tony | When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences. (series) |
| J / Fle | The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School Fleming, Candace | An unlikely teacher takes over the disorderly fourth-grade class of Aesop Elementary School with surprising results. |
| J / Gau | My Life Among the Aliens Gauthier, Gail | Two brothers begin to wonder if it is their mother's unusual cooking that is attracting the aliens that keep showing up at their house. |
| J & Pbk / Gut | Babe and Me Gutman, Dan | With their ability to travel through time using baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs. |
| J & Pbk /Hal | The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse Hale, Bruce | When hired by a fellow fourth-grader to find her missing brother, Chet Gecko uncovers a plot involving a Gila monster's revenge upon the school football team. |
| J / Lin | The Year of the Dog Lin, Grace | 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. |
| J / Lon | Barnstormers: Game 1: Porkopolis Long, Loren | In the late 1800s, a baseball with strange powers belonging to their late father works wonders for three children and a travelling baseball team which must raise $10,000. (series) |
| J & Pbk / Low | Anastasia Krupnik Lowry, Lois | Anastasia's 10th year has some highs and lows as she prepares for the birth of a new brother. (series) |
| J / Mac | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle MacDonald, Betty | From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis. (series) |
| J / Nap | The Prince of the Pond Napoli, Donna Jo | In this unusual telling of the frog prince tale, Jade, a female frog, meets the prince under his enchantment and never quite catches on that he really isn't a frog. |
| J & Pbk Pul | I Was a Rat Pullman, Philip | A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat. |
| J & Pbk Rei | I, Freddy Reich, Dietlof | Freddy, a remarkably intelligent golden hamster, learns how to read and how to write on a computer and escapes captivity to become an independent and civilized creature. (series) |
| J & Pbk / Rob | The Best School Year Ever Robinson, Barbara | The six horrible Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world, cause mayhem throughout the school year |
| J / Roc | How to Eat Fried Worms Rockwell, Thomas | Two boys set out to prove that worms make a delicious meal. |
| J & Pbk / Rya | Riding Freedom Ryan, Pam Munoz | 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. |
| J / Wee | Oggie Cooder Weeks, Sarah | Quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder goes from being shunned to everyone's best friend when his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a popular television talent show. |
