FOURTH GRADE SUMMER READING LIST

Below is a list of titles and authors that incoming fourth graders may enjoy. This is not a required list but a guide to help you find good books.  Hope to see you this summer at the library.  Happy Reading!
      

Books in Series (check out other books in the series, too!)
Dixon, Franklin.  The Blackwing Puzzle (The Hardy Boys)
Henry, Marguerite.  Misty of Chincoteague
Hildick, E.W.  The Case of the Phantom Frog (A McGurk Mystery)
Hope, Laura Lee.  The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
Lovelace, Maud Hart.  Betsy-Tacy
Lovelace, Maud Hart. The Valentine Box
Lowry, Lois.  Anatasia Krupnik
MacGregor, Ellen.  Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic
Porter, Connie.  Happy Birthday Addy!
Sobol, Donald J.  Encyclopedia Brown
Wilder, Laura Ingalls.  Little House on the Prairie
Wooley, Catherine.  Ginnie and the Mystery Cat

Fantasy Books
Banks, Lynn Reid.  The Indian in the Cupboard
Baum, Frank.  The Wizard of Oz
Cleary, Beverly.  The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Dahl, Roald.  James and the Giant Peach
Dahl, Roald. The Enormous Crocodile
Estes, Eleanor.  The Witch Family
Gurney, James.  Dinotopia
Juster, Norman.  The Phantom Tollbooth
Lindgren, Astrid.  Pippi Longstocking
Mayer, Marianna.  Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio
Peck, Richard.  The Ghost Belonged to Me
Scieszka, Jon.  Knights of the Kitchen Table
Van Allsburg, Chris.  The Sweetest Fig
White, E.B.  Stuart Little

Newbery Award Winners
Babbit, Natalie.  Tuck Everlasting
Brink, Carol Ryrie.  Caddie Woodlawn
Cleary, Beverly.  Dear Mr. Henshaw
DuBois, William Pene.  The 21 Balloons
Estes, Eleanor.  The Hundred Dresses
Fitzhugh, Louise.  Harriet the Spy
Lenski, Lois.  Strawberry Girl
White, E.B. Charlotte's Web

Other Great Books
Blume, Judy.  Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Hamilton, Virginia.  Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
Sewell, A.  Black Beauty
Sidney, Margaret.  Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Spinelli, Jerry.  Fourth Grade Rats
Taylor, Sydney.  All of a Kind Family

My Favorites
Estes, Eleanor.  The Hundred Dresses
Juster, Norman.  The Phantom Tollbooth
McCloskey, Robert.  Homer Price

There's always time for a book:
Take a book when you know you'll be waiting.
Take a book to the doctor's office.
Take a book when you travel.
Read a book instead of watching TV.
Get a public library card.
READ!  READ!  READ!