Top 40 Picks for Fourth Graders
Stories
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.