4^TH GRADE – High interest/easier reading level

(List developed for a 4^th grade boy)

(Deborah Gitlitz, Sept. ’01)

       FICTION

·        Love That Dog (by Sharon Creech)

·        Stone Fox (by John Gardiner)

·        The Year of Miss Agnes (by Kirkpatrick Hill)

·        How to Eat Fried Worms (by Thomas Rockwell)

·        Just Juice (by Karen Hesse)

·        Soccer ‘Cats series (by Matt Christopher)

·        Bailey School Kids series (by Debbie Dadey)

·        Regarding the fountain : a tale, in letters, of Liars and Leaks

(by Kate Klise)

·        Thank you, Mr. Falker (by Patricia Polacco)

·        A Mouse Called Wolf (by Dick King-Smith)

·        The Owl in the Shower (by Jean Craighead George)

·        Stuart’s Cape (by Sara Pennypacker)

·        The Elevator Family (by Douglas Evans)

·        George Speaks (by Dick King-Smith)

NON-FICTION

·        Dick King-Smith’s Animal Friends: 31 True-Life Stories

(by Dick King-Smith)

·        The Tarantula in My Purse (by Jean Craighead George)

·        Rattlesnake dance : true tales, mysteries, and rattlesnake ceremonies

(by Jennifer Owings Dewey)

POETRY

·        Joyful Noise (by Paul Fleischman)

·        Popcorn (by James Stevenson)

·        The New Kid on the Block (by Jack Prelutsky)

·        anything by Shel Silverstein

·        Rimshots : basketball pix, rolls, and rhythms (by Charles R. Smith, Jr.)