Summer Reading for Students Entering Fourth Grade

This summer we want you to focus on enjoying reading.  One of the best ways to grow as a reader is to read various     genres of books and to read often.  Students are being asked to read at least 3 books, but we hope you will read many more!  Please write the title and author for each book you read on the enclosed leaf.  Please save the leaves and return them to school in the fall.  Feel free to make more leaves for every book you read this summer.  On the following pages is a list of recommended books, but your choice is not limited to these books. Have fun reading!

Fantasy

Aliens Ate My Homework by Bruce Coville

The Bronze Pen by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

 Doll People by Anne M. Martin

Fire Within by Chris D’Lacey

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

Hatching Magic by Ann Downer

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

Into the Wild (Warriors Series) by Erin Hunter

Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards

Magyk by Angie Sage

Olivia Kidney Stops for No One

by Ellen Potter

The One-Eyed Giant by Mary Pope Osborne

Poppy by Avi

Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda

The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler 

Friendship and School Stories

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath

Homework Machine by Dan Gutman

Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

                            by Katherine M. Hannigan

Niagara Falls, or Does It? by Lin Oliver and Henry Winkler

No Talking by Andrew Clements

Phineas L. Macguire ... Erupts!: The First Experiment

by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech

Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell

School Story by Andrew Clements

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Spider Boy by Ralph J. Fletcher

 Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byar

The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney

Adventure

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Beastly Arms by Patrick Jennings

The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldman

 Jack Plank Tell Tales by Natalie Babbit

Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse

My Side of the Mountain by Jean George Craighead

Secret School by Avi

The 7 Professors of the Far North by John Fardell

A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements

Historical Fiction and Fact

The American Story by Jennifer Armstrong

George Washington, Spymaster by Thomas B. Allen

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson

Mary Celeste: an Unsolved Mystery form History by Jane Yolen                                                  

The Misadventures of Maude March, or, Trouble Rides a Fast Horse

by Audrey Couloumbis

Rodzina by Karen Cushman

Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

Wright Twist by Josie Daval

Mystery

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen

Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach

Mr. Chickee's Funny Money by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Ghost of Cutler Creek by Cynthia DeFelice

Give My Regrets to Broadway: from the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye

by Bruce Hale

Poetry

Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme: Poems selected by Jack Prelutsky

A Kick in the Head : an Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms

selected by Paul B. Janeczko

Fold Me a Poem by Kristine O'Connell George

A Family of Poems : My Favorite Poetry for Children

selected by Caroline Kennedy