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Reading is one of the great joys of life. Here are some great authors and titles to help fourth graders get started in a great book. The important thing is to read, read, read!
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Angelou, Maya |
My Painted House |
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Armstrong, William |
Sounder |
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Avi |
Blue Heron Crispin, the Cross of Lead Night Journeys The Fighting Ground Ragweed |
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Bailey, Carolyn |
Miss Hickory |
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Banks, Lynn Reid |
The Fairy Rebel |
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Blume, Judy |
Blubber Freckle Juice Superfudge and any of the Fudge series |
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Bond, Michael |
A Bear Called Paddington |
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Bridges, Ruby |
Through My Eyes |
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Brink, Carol R. |
Caddie Woodlawn |
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Butterworth, Olive |
The Enormous Egg |
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Byars, Betsy |
Bingo Brown series Blossoms series Coast to Coast The Summer of the Swans The Computer Nut The Cybil War The Dark Stairs The Night Swimmers Tornado |
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Caudill, Rebecca |
Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? |
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Caudill, Rebecca |
Tree of Freedom |
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Christopher, Matt |
Dirt Bike Racer The Fox Steals Home Ice Magic Long Stretch at First Base No Arm in the Left Field Skateboard Tough |
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Cleary, Beverly |
Beezus and Ramona (any of the series ) Dear Mr. Henshaw Ellen Tebbits Henry Huggins (any of the series) Muggie Maggie Socks Strider |
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Clements, Andrew |
Janitor's Boy |
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Coerr, Eleanor |
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes |
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Colfer, Eoin |
Artemis Fowl (series) |
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Colville, Ann |
My Teacher Fried My Brains |
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Colville, Bruce |
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien |
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Creech, Sharon |
Bloomability Love That Dog Walk Two Moons |
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Curtis, Christopher |
Bud, Not Buddy |
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Curtis, Christopher |
The Watsons Go to Birmingham |
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Cutler, Jane |
No Dogs Allowed |
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Dahl, Roald |
The B.F.G. Esio Trot Witches (and any other book by Roald Dahl) |
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Davidson, Margaret |
The Story of Jackie Robinson, the Bravest Man In Baseball |
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DeCamillo, Kate |
Because of Winn Dixie Tiger Rising The Tale of Despereaux |
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Denenberg, Barry |
Stealing Home: A Story of Jackie Robinson |
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Edmonds, Walter |
The Matchlock Gun |
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Estes, Eleanor |
The Moffats (series) |
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Fitzhugh, Louise |
Harriet the Spy |
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Fleischman, Paul |
Bull Run |
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Fritz, Jean |
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? George Washington's Breakfast Shh! We're Writing the Constitution The Double Life of Pocahontas What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? Where Do You Think You're Going, Columbus? |
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Gardiner, John |
Stone Fox |
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Giff, Patricia |
Lily's Crossing Nory Ryan's Song
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Gipson, Fred |
Old Yeller |
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Gutman, Dan |
Honus and Me |
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Haywood, Carolyn |
Betsy (series, any books) The Eddie (series) |
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Henry, Marguerite |
Black Gold King of the Wind (series) |
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Hiaasen, Carl |
Hoot |
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Holling, Holling |
Paddle-to-the Sea |
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Howe, Deborah |
Bunnicula |
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Howe, James |
Howliday Inn |
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Hughes, Langston |
The Dreamkeeper and other Poems |
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Hunter, Mollie |
The Mermaid Summer |
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Hurwitz, Johanna |
Aldo (any in the series) |
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Jacques, Brian |
Redwall (series) |
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Jerry Spinelli, |
Wringer |
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Joseph, Lynn |
The Color of My Words |
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Juster, Norton |
The Phantom Tollbooth |
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King-Smith, Dick |
Pigs Might Fly |
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Konigsburg, E. L. |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
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Krumgold, Joseph |
Onion John |
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Lawson, Robert |
Ben and Me |
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L'Engle, Madeleine |
A Wind in the Door A Wrinkle in Time (series) |
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Levers, Gail Carson |
Ella Enchanted |
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Lewis, C. S. |
Chronicles of Narnia (series) |
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Lindgren, Astrid |
Pippi Longstocking (series) |
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Lovelace, Maud Hart |
Betsy-Tacy (series) |
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Lowry, Lois |
All About Sam Anastasia (series) Attaboy, Sam Number the Stars |
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MacLachlan, Patricia |
Sarah, Plain and Tall |
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Martin, Rafe |
Rough Face Girl |
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McDonald, Betty |
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (series) |
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Mochizuki, Ken |
Baseball Saved Us |
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Naylor, Phyllis |
Beetles Lightly Toasted Saving Shiloh |
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Norton, Mary |
The Borrowers (series) |
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O'Dell, Scott |
Sing Down the Moon |
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Park, Linda Sue |
A Single Shard |
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Peck, Richard |
A Long Way From Chicago A Year Down Under Voices After Midnight |
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Peck, Robert Newton |
Soup (series) |
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Porter, Eleanor |
Pollyanna |
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Reid Banks, Lynn |
The Indian in the Cupboard |
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Reilly Giff, Patricia |
Fourth Grade Celebrity Pictures of Hollis Woods |
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Robinson, Barbara |
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever |
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Rockwell, Thomas |
How to Eat Fried Worms |
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Rowling, J. K. |
Harry Potter (series) |
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Ryan, Pam |
Esperanza Rising |
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Rylant, Cynthia |
A Blue-Eyed Daisy |
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Sachar, Louis |
Holes Sixth Grade Secrets There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom Wayside School is Falling Down
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Various authors |
Dear America (series) |
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Scieska, Jon |
Summer Reading Is Killing Me The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
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Silverstein, Shel |
Falling Up The Giving Tree |
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Simon, Seymour |
Big Cats |
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Snicket, Lemony |
Bad Beginning (series) |
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Sobol, Donald J. |
Encyclopedia Brown (series) |
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Sperry, Armstrong |
Call It Courage |
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Spinelli, Jerry |
Fourth Grade Rats Stargirl Knots in My Yo-Yo String |
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Steig, William |
The Real Thief |
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Stein, R. Conrad |
Ellis Island The Underground Railroad |
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Taylor, Mildred |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
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Taylor, Syndey |
All-of-a-Kind Family series |
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Voight, Cynthia |
Bad, Badder, Baddest |
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
The Boxcar Children (series) |
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White, E. B. |
Charlotte's Web Stuart Little The Trumpet of the Swan |
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
The Little House (series) |
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Yolen, Jane |
Devil's Arithmetic The Dragon's Boy Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast |
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Mathematics in Literature |
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