READING SUGGESTIONS FOR FOURTH GRADE.
WELCOME TO PETERSEN SCHOOL! You will love this school and love to come to the library. I have missed you over the summer and hope you have read a lot.
Here are some books you may like. If you can email me and send a book report, I will give you a "Hooty." My email address is .
For 4th Grade: Animal Stories | Fantasy and Humor | Realistic Fiction | Mystery and Adventure | Fairy Tales, Folktales, and Myths | Sports
ANIMAL STORIES
Pagoo’s brittle armor burst open across his back. He bent double, lashed his tail,
wriggled and bucked to pull all those pesky points and joints out of their plastic prisons.
This molting was almost as much trouble as being hatched all over again, but at last he had
shed his old skin. It drifted off in the sea like a moth’s tiny wings on a breeze, and
Pagoo was left soft and new all over. It felt good to be free, to stretch out and expand – and
suddenly he was hungrier than ever. It was easier to bring food near his mouth parts now, for he had an extra pair of fuzzy new oars with which to stir the sea-soup.
Holling Clancy Holling’s PAGOO.
Bagnold, Enid. NATIONAL VELVET.
Byars, Betsy. TORNADO.
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Farley, Walter. THE BLACK STALLION. Fromental, Jean-Luc. BROADWAY CHICKEN. Graham, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. |
Cleary, Beverly. THE MOUSE AND THE MOTORCYCLE.
Henry, Marguerite. MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE.
Jacques, Brian. REDWALL series.
Naylor, Phyliss. SHILOH.
O’Brien, Robert C. MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH.
Sewell, Anna. BLACK BEAUTY.
White, E.B. STUART LITTLE,
Sacks and boxes were piled high waiting to be delivered to the ships that
Sailed the Sea of Knowledge…Above all the noise and tumult of the
crowd could be heard the merchants’ voices loudly advertising their products.
"Get your fresh-picked ifs, ands, and buts." "Hey-yaa, Hey-yaa, Hey-yaa, nice ripe
wheres and whens." "Juicy, tempting words for sale."
…So many words for sale! There were short ones and long ones and even some
marvelously fancy ones packed in individual gift boxes.
Norman Juster. THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH.
Banks, Lynne Reid. THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD series.
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Coville, Bruce. I LEFT MY SNEAKERS IN DIMENSION X.Levine, Gail. ELLA ENCHANTED.
McCloskey, Robert. HOMER PRICE.
Norton, Mary. THE BORROWERS series.
Rodgers, Mary. FREAKY FRIDAY.
Sachar, Louis. WAYSIDE SCHOOL IS FALLING DOWN
Tolkein, J.R. THE HOBBIT.
Van Allsburg, Chris. THE WIDOW’S BROOM
THE SWEETEST FIG and others.
REALISTIC FICTION
Marilla came briskly forward as Matthew opened the door. But when her eyes fell on the odd little figure in the stiff, ugly dress, with the long braids of red hair and the eager, luminous eyes, she stopped in amazement.
"Matthew Cuthbert, who’s that? Where is the boy?"
"There wasn’t any boy, " said Matthew wretchedly. "There was only her." He nodded at the child, remembering that he had never even asked her name.
"No boy! But there must have been a boy," insisted Marilla. "We sent word to Mrs. Spencer to bring a boy."
L.M. Montgomery. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES.
Blume, Judy. FUDGE-A-MANIA
SUPERFUDGE
Burnett, Frances H. THE SECRET GARDEN
Cleary, Beverly. RAMONA’S WORLD
STRIDER
HENRY’S PAPER ROUTE
Coville, Bruce. MY TEACHER GLOWS IN THE DARK
THE SKULL OF TRUTH
Curtis, Christopher. BUD, NOT BUDDY
Duffey, Betsy VIRTUAL CODY
Estes, Eleanor. THE MOFFATS
Fitzhugh, Louise HARRIET THE SPY
George, Jean Craighead. JULIE OF THE WOLVES
Montgomery, L.M. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES series.
O’Dell, Scott. THE ISLAND OF BLUE DOLPHINS.
Spinelli, Jerry. CRASH.
Spyri, Johanna. HEIDI.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE.
"The witching hour!" Joe chuckled.
They reached the end of one of the side streets and decided to continue into more open country. Minutes later both boys stiffened as a distant howl echoed through the night, then another!
"Come on!" cried Frank. "That must be the real thing!"
They ran in the direction of the sounds and presently saw a figure dashing toward them out of the darkness. It proved to be a boy their own age, obviously scared out of his wits!
"What’s the matter?" Frank called out as the youth came closer.
"I just saw a wolf back there!" the boy panted. "It came right at me, and the thing glowed in the dark!"
Franklin W. Dixon NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF from the Hardy Boys series.
Aiken, Joan. THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE
Byars, Betsy. DEATH’S DOOR
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Dixon, Franklin W. THE HARDY BOYS series.Keene, Carolyn. NANCY DREW series.
Konigsburg, E.L. FROM THE MIXED UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER
Stevenson, Robert L. TREASURE ISLAND.
Warner, Gertrude Chandler. THE BOXCAR CHILDREN
FAIRY TALES, FOLKTALES AND MYTHS
The maiden rode many weary miles on the unicorn until at last she came to a great forest.
She slid off the unicorn’s back and tapped him three times on the left ear.
So tired was she that she lay down to rest making the roots of a giant tree her bed.
She slept, and as she slept she dreamed that the forest had uprooted itself and was gathering around her.
The sound of rustling wakened her, and there all about her stood the forest.
"Father Forest," she said, "do you know of a Kingdom east of the sun and west of the moon and do you know of a youth who is to marry the troll princess there?"
Mercer Mayer. EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON
Andersen, Hans Christian. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES.
Lester, Julius. THE TALES OF UNCLE REMUS.
