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Reading List for Students entering Fourth Grade

Students are required to read five books this summer. Students are required to read Harriet Tubman Freedom Train by Dorothy Sterling, Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O’Dell and three other books from the list. 

Joseph and Chico: The Life of Pope Benedict XVI as told by a Cat by Jeanne Perego

My Dog the Genius by jack Prelutsky

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson

Don’t Bump the Glump by Shel Silverstein

The BFG by Roald  Dahl

Emily’s Runaway Imagination by Bevely Cleary

From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konisburg

Nelson Mandela: No Easy Walk to Freedom by Barry Deneberg

Mother Teresa Friend of the Poor by Kathleen Kudlenski

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Clooney

Revenge of the Substitute Teacher by Joe Lawrence

Stuart Little by E.B. White

Crickets in Time Square by George Selden

Morgan’s Zoo by James Howe

Top Secret by John Reynolds Gardiner

Great Moments in Baseball by Matt Christopher

On the Field with Derek Jeter by Matt Christopher

Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Blume

Brother Eagle Sister Sky by Chief Seattle

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes

Left handed Shortstop by Patricia Reilly

Bufflalo Woman by Paul Goble

Bunnicula: Rabbit Tale of Mystery by Jams Howe

Magic tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne

Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes by Louis Sachar

If You Lived in Colonial Times by Anne MvGovern

Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith

Accidents May Happen: Fifty Inventions Discovered by Mistake by Charlotte Jones

Island of Skog by Stephen Kellog

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleichman

Aliens for Breakfast by Jonathan Etra

Lady with theTorch by Elanor Caerr

Poppy by Avi

Hey World, Here I Am by Jean Little

Bull Run by Paul Fleischman

Come Back Salmon by Molly Cone