Top 40 Picks for Fourth Graders

 

Booklist fourth gradersStories

The Penderwicks  —  Birdsall

Masterpiece   —  Broach

Artemis Fowl  —  Colfer

Bud, Not Buddy  —  Curtis

Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword  —  Deutsch

Because of Winn-Dixie  —  DiCamillo

The Tale of Despereaux  —  DiCamillo

The Whipping Boy  —  Fleischman

The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School  —  Fleming

Dragon Rider  —  Funke

Abner and Me: A Baseball Adventure  —  Gutman

Dust Devil  —  Isaacs

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place  —  Konigsburg

Number the Stars  —  Lowry

Two-Minute Drill  —  Lupica

How to Steal a Dog  —  O’Connor

Clementine: Friend of the Week  —  Pennypacker

Pink and Say  —  Polacco

Magyk  —  Sage

The Night Fairy  —  Schlitz

Spaceheadz  —  Scieszka

A Whole ‘Nother Story  —  Soup

On the Blue Comet  —  Wells

Charlotte’s Web  —  White

One Crazy Summer  —  Williams-Garcia

 

People, Poetry, Facts, and Folklore

Rosa  —  Giovanni

One Grain of Rice  —  Demi

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book  —  Hamilton

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins  —  Kerley

How to Clean a Hippopotamus  —  Jenkins

So You Want to be an Inventor  —  St. George

Kakapo Rescue  —  Montgomery

Paula Deen’s Cookbook for the Lunch-Box Set 

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring  —  Greenberg

Science Verse  —  Scieszka

Ubiquitous  —  Sidman

Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka  —  Scieszka

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Medieval Knight  —  Macdonald

George Did It!  —  Jurmain

Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates  —  Winter

 

Note: These titles were chosen by the Youth Services Librarians of the Dauphin County Library System for their appeal to the interest level of this age group. They are not meant to represent or measure a student’s reading level.