Chicago Public Library- Recommended Reading for Fourth Grade Students
Folk Tales, Fairy Tales
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Between Heaven and Earth: Bird Tales from Around the World by Howard A. Norman. 2004, Harcourt.
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Foolish Jack and the Bean Stack by Laurence Anholt. 2004, Compass Point Books.
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Gospel Cinderella by Joyce Carol Thomas. 2004, HarperCollins
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Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants by Sam Swope. 2004, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales by Gregory Maguire. 2004, HarperCollins.
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Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O’Malley. 2005, Walker & Co.
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The People Could Fly: The Picture Book by Virginia Hamilton. 2004, Random House.
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The Princess and the Pea by Susanna Davidson. 2004, Usborne, EDC Pub
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo. 2003, Candlewick Press.
Nonfiction
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African-American Soldiers in the Civil War: Fighting for Freedom by Carin T. Ford. 2004, Enslow Publishers.
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The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss by Kathleen Krull. 2004, Random House.
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Cats: How to Choose and Care for a Cat by Laura S. Jeffrey. 2004, Enslow Publishers.
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Creatures by Ruth Thomson. 2004, Chelsea Club House.
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Days to Celebrate: A Full Year of Poetry, People, Holidays, History Fascinating Facts, and More by Lee Bennett Hopkins. 2005, Greenwillow Books.
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Diamond Life: Baseball Sights, Sounds, and Swings by Charles R. Smith, Jr. 2004, Orchard Books.
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Free at Last!: Stories and Songs of Emancipation by Doreen Rappaport. 2004, Candlewick Press.
I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun? by Brian Cleary. 2004, Carlrhoda Books.
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If Walls Could Talk: Family Life at the White House by Jane O’Connor. 2004, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
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Imagine That!: Activities and Adventures in Surrealism by Joyce Raimondo. 2004, Watson-Guptill.
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Jackie Robinson: A Photo-Illustrated Biography by Barbara Knox. 2004, Bridestone Books.
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The Kid Who Named Pluto: And the Stories of Other Extraordinary Young People in Science by Marc McCutcheon. 2004, Chronicle Books.
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Killer Whales by Sandra Markle. 2004, Carolrhoda Books.
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The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeanette Winter. 2005, Harcourt.
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Look and Cook: A Cookbook for Children by Tina Davis. 2004, Stewart, Tabori & Chang.
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Look at My Book: How Kids Can Write & Illustrate Terrific Books by Loreen Leedy. 2004, Holiday House.
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The Lord’s Prayer illustrated by Heidi Holder. 2004, Front Street.
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Money Sense for Kids by Hollis Page Harman. 2004, Barrons Educational Series
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Polar Bear Math: Learning About the Fractions from Klondike and Snow by Ann Whitehead Nagda. 2004, Henry Holt and Co.
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Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison. 2004, Houghton Mifflin.
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Seurat and La Grande Jatte: Connecting the Dots by Robert Burleigh. 2004, Abrams.
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Sign Language for Kids: Fun & Easy Guide to American Sign Language by Lora Heller. 2004, Sterling.
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Slavery and the Underground Railroad: Bound for Freedom by Carin T. Ford. 2004, Enslow Publishers.
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Temperate Forest: A Web of Life by Phillip Johansson. 2004, Enslow Publishers.
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Thanks and Giving All Year Long. 2004, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
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What If You Met a Pirate?: An Historical Voyage of Seafaring Speculation by Jan Adkins. 2004, Roaring Brook Press.
Fiction
• Basketball (Or Something Like It) by Nora Raleigh Baskin. 2005, HarperCollins.
• Blow Out the Moon by Libby Koponen. 2004, Little Brown
Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy
by Jenny Nimmo. 2004, Orchard.
Disappearing Act
by Sid Fleischman. 2003, Greenwillow Books.
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The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail(And Even Smaller Ant) by Avi. 2004, Harcourt.
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Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia by Barbara O’Connor. 2003, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Ghost Fever- Mal de Fantasma by Joe Hayes. 2004, Cinco Puntos Press.
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The Gorillas of Gill Park by Amy Gordon. 2003, Holiday House.
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Hidden Roots by Joseph Bruchac. 2004, Scholastic.
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Holding at Third by Linda Zinnen. 2004, Dutton Children’s Books.
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I, Jack by Patricia Finney. 2004, HarperCollins.
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Jackson Jones and Mission Greentop by Mary Quattlebaum. 2004, Delacorte Press.
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Judy Moody, M.D.: The Doctor Is In! by Megan McDonald. 2004, Candlewick Press.
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The Last Dog on Earth by Daniel Ehrenhaft. 2003, Delacorte Press.
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Lunch Walks Among Us by James K. Benton. 2003, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
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Michael Rosen’s Sad Book by Michael Rosen. 2005, Candlewick Press.
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Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo. 2003, Orchard Books.
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More Perfect Than the Moon by Patricia MacLachlan. 2004, Joanna Cotler Books.
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Murder My Tweet: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye by Bruce Gale. 2004, Harcourt.
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Owen Foote, Mighty Scientist by Stephanie Greene. 2004, Clarion Books.
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The Pepins and Their Problems by Polly Horvath. 2004, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Say What? by Margaret Peterson Haddix. 2004, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
• Secret Language of Girls by Frances O’Roark Dowell. 2004, Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
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The Shadows of Ghadames by Joelle Stolz. 2004, Delacorte Press.
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Silk Umbrellas by Carolyn Marsden. 2004, Candlewick Press.
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So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez. 2004, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
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The Story of Kites by Ying Chang Compestine. 2003, Holiday House.
• Taking Care of Moses by Barbara O’Connor. 2004, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Poetry
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Ancient Voices by Kate Hovey. 2004, Margaret K. McElderry Books.
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At Jerusalem’s Gate: Poems of Easter by Nikki Grimes. 2005, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers.
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Come to the Great World: Poems From Around the Globe by Wendy Cooling. 2004, Holiday House.
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Creature Carnival by Marilyn Singer. 2004, Hyperion Books for Children.
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Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange. 2004, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
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Fine Feathered Friends: Poems for Young People by Jane Yolen. 2004, Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press.
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Omnibeasts by Douglas Florian. 2004, Harcourt.
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Pot O’ Gold: A Treasury of Irish Stories, Poetry, Folklore, and (Of Course) Blarney by Kathleen Krull. 2004, Hyperion Books for Children.
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Rainbow Soup: Adventures in Poetry by Brian P. Cleary. 2004, Carolrhoda Books.
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What Is Goodbye? by Nikki Grimes. 2004, Hyperion Books for Children