Fourth Grade Recommended Reading

Nonfiction

All About Sleep from A to Zzzz by Elaine Scott. Viking

Boy, Were We Wrong About the Solar System! by Kathleen Kudlinski. Dutton.

Eat Right! How You Can Make Good Food Choices by Matt Doeden. Lerner

Flying Animals by June Loves. 2002, Chelsea House Publications.

Helen's Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's Teacher by Marfe Ferguson Delano. National Geographic

Lincoln Shot!: A President's Life Remembered by Barrry Denenberg. Feiwel and Friends

The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming. Schwartz and Wade

My Dog May Be a Genius by Jack Prelutsky. Greenwillow

The Girl Who Helped Thunder and other Native American Folktales Retold by James Bruchac and Joseph Bruchac. Sterling

The Moon by Seymour Simon

The Moon & You by E. C. Krupp

Cloud Dance by Thomas Locker

The Chimpanzees I Love, Jane Goodall by Jo S. Kittinger. 2001, Scholastic Press.

Crazy Horse's Vision by Joseph Bruchac

Ben Franklin's Almanac:Being a True Account of the Good Gentlemen's Life by Candace Fleming. 2003, Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

What To Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley. Scholastic.

Fiction

Bird Lake Moon by Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow.

Black and White by Jeanne Betancourt. 2003, Scholastic.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.

The 39 Clues series: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan, One False Note by Gordon Korman, Scholastic.

The Flying Lesson by Virginia T. Gross. Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Inc.

Highway Cats by Janet Taylor Lisle. Philomel.

Julia Gillian (and the Art of Knowing) by Alison McGhee. Scholastic.

Mr. Magorium's Magic Emporium

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsberg

Yolanda's Genius by Carol Fenner. 1995, Aladdin Paperbacks.

Fit to Read: Books to Inspire Healthy Living

These selections are available at the Chicago Public Library. These books are recommended by the CPL.

Eat Right!:How You Can Make Good Food Choices by Matt Doeden. Lerner, 2008.

The Human Machine: An Owner's Guide to the Body by Richard Walker. Oxford, 2008.

Trade Books

Sudoku

Summer Reading Recommendations

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsberg

Math Curse by Jon Scieszka.

Satchmo's Blues by Alan Schroeder.

SCHOLASTIC READING COUNTS LIST:

http://www2.fcsconline.org/staff/mccainm/ReadingCounts/RCListTitle.pdf