4th Grade Recommended Reading
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz **
- The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
- Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith
- The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
- Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
- Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul by Jack Canfield **
- The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Wilder
- Help! Somebody Get Me Out of Fourth Grade by Henry Winkler
- The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
- Encyclopedia Horrifica by Joshua Gee **
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- The Boys Start the Way by Phyllis Naylor
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
- Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
** denotes non-fiction books.
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