Books we recommend for 4th graders

J Fiction – alphabetical by author

• Naked Mole-Rat Letters by Mary Amato
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• The Incredible Journey by Sheila Every Burnford
• Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
• Saxby Smart (series) by Simon Cheshire
• Frindle by Andrew Clements
• Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
• The BFG by Roald Dahl
• Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
• Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• Bravo Zulu, Samantha by Kathleen Duble
• The Problem with the Puddles by Kate Feiffer
• Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
• The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by Candace Fleming
• Wild Girl by Patricia Giff

• Found (first book in series) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) by Jeff Kinney
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basel E Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
• A Wrinkle in Time (first book of a series) by Madeleine L'Engle
• Akimbo (series) by Alexander McCall Smith
• Midnight for Charlie Bone (first book in series) by Jenny Nimmo
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Magyk (first book in Septimus Heap series) by Angie Sage
• Toes by Tor Seidler
• Shredderman: Secret Identity (first book in series) by Wendelin Van Draanen
• Hank Zipzer (series) by Henry Winkler

Non-fiction, call numbers noted

• Grossology by Sylvia Branzei, J 612 B82g
• Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka, J 813.54 S41r