Books Cut Out for Fourth Graders
The following list encompasses the many reading levels found among fourth graders and includes just a sampling of the many outstanding texts available to students. Many of these authors have other titles which are appropriate for this reading level.
Adventure
At the Back of the North Woods by Claudia Mills
Bad Beginning, The by Lemony Snicket
Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Jim Ugly by Sid Fleischman
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Stranded by Matt Christopher
Where's Buddy? by Ron Roy
Animal Stories
Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Mouse and the Motorcycle, The by Beverly Cleary
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Sable by Karen Hesse
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
There's an Owl in the Shower by Jean Craighead George
Wanted... Mud Blossom by Betsy Byars
Biographies
Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life, The by Sid Fleischman
Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley
Go Free or Die by Jeri Ferris
Jose Canseco, Baseball's 40-40 Man by Nathan Aaseng
Knots in My Yo-Yo- string: The Autobiography of a Kid by Jerry Spinelli
My Childhood in Nazi Germany by Elsbeth Emmich
Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology by Kathleen Kudlinski
Secret Soldier, The: The Story of Deborah Sampson by Ann McGovern
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: Shackleton's Amazing
Voyage by Jennifer Armstrong
Susan Butcher and the Iditarod Trail by Ellen Dolan
Fantasy
Borrowers, The by Mary Norton
Chocolate Touch, The by Patrick Skene Catling
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The by Kate DiCamillo
Music of Dolphins, The by Karen Hesse
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindfren
Poppy by Avi
Fables
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
Fables by Arnold Lobel
Fables of La Fontaine by Jean De La Fontaine
Rainstick, The: A Fable by Sandra C. Robinson
Historical Fiction
Addie Across the Prairie by Laurie Lawlor
Children of the Longhouse by Joseph Bruchac
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
Long Meg by Rosemary Minard
Sarah, Plan and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Humor
Beloved Dearly, The by Doug Cooney
Further Adventures of Hank the Cowdog, The by John Erickson
Great Brain, The by John D. Fitzgerald
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Superfudge by Judy Blume
Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? by Jerry Spinelli
Why Did the Underwear Cross the Road? by Gordon Korman
Mystery
Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy
Case of the Muttering Mummy, The by E.W. Hildick
Dollhouse Murders, The by Betty Ren Wright
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Return to Howliday Inn by James Howe
Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz
Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
View from the Cherry Tree, The by Willo Davis Roberts
Nonfiction (Informational) Text
Brainstorm! The Story of Twenty American Kid Inventors by Tom Tucker
Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus by Barbara Bash
Earthquakes by Seymour Simon
Frozen Man by David Getz
Hubble Space Telescope, The by Ray Spangenburg
In Search of the Grand Canyon: Down the Colorado with John Wesley Powell
by Mary Ann Fraser
It's Our World Too by Phillip Hoose
Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole
Outside and Inside Snakes by Sandra Markle
Teammates by Peter Golenbock
Poetry
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Bird Watch: A Book of Poetry by Jane Yolen
For Laughing Out Loud by Jack Prelutsky
If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella by Laura Whipple
If Your Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand by Kalli Dakos
Science Fiction
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Fall, The by Garth Nix
Fat Men from Space by Daniel Pinkwater
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Who Was That Masked Man Anyway? by Avi
Wizard in the Tree, The by Lloyd Alexander
Sports
Bobby Baseball by Robert Kimmel Smith
Fill Court Fever by Fred Bowen
One Smooth Move by Matt Christopher
Racing Sled Dogs by Michael Cooper
Shoeless Joe and Me by Dan Gutman
S.O.R. Losers by Avi
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