Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Fourth Grade Summer Reading List!

All the fourth graders reviewed the books they read this year and compiled this list of FAVORITES to share with each other. Hope this gives you some ideas for SUMMER READING! ~ Mrs. O’Keefe

FANTASY
The City Of Ember
The Bad Beginning (Series of Unfortunate Events)
Deltora Quest (such as Cavern of Fear)
Catwings
Harry Potter
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson series)
Dealing with Dragons series
Silverwing
books by Eva Ibbotson
Wizard of Oz
Stuart Little
Poppy and Rye and other Poppy books by Avi
Warriors (series, for example Firestar’s Quest)
Juliet Dove Queen of Love
Artemis Fowl (series)
The Tale of Despereaux
Star Wars chapter books (like The Fight to Survive)
Eragon (Inheritance series)
Pendragon series like The Merchant of Death
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Mirror, Mirror: a Twisted Tale
Punished!
Golden Compass, His Dark Materials
I.Q.
The Chocolate Touch
Coraline
Artemis Fowl series
A Dog’s Life

SCARY
The Chilliers:Virtual Vampires of Vermont, South Carolina Sea Creatures,
Haunting in New Hampshire, Mayhem on Mackinac Island
Goosebumps such as Chicken Chicken and The Haunted School
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

AWESOME REALISTIC FICTION
Books by Marguerite Henry
Emma
The Great Quarterback Switch
Mandy
Landry News, Lunch Money, and all books by Clements
Ten Ways to Make My Sister Disappear
The Cat Who Got Carried Away
Snowed In With Granmother Silk
P.S. Longer Letter Later
Deep Down Popular
The Secret Life of the Underwear Champ
Holes
Hatchet
Fudge-a-Mania
Travel Team and other sport books by Lupica
The Penderwicks

MYSTERY
Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen, ...and the Skeleton Man
The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls
The Secret Seven and the Secret Five mysteries

FUN SERIES
Junie B. jones 1st grader at last
Now You See Me-- Now You Don’t
Abby Hayes such The best is yet to come and Home is Where the Heart Is
Zack Files
Lunch walks among us, Attack of the 50” Cupid (Franny K. Stein series)
David Mortimore Baxter
Dragon Slayer’s Academy
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
My Weird School
Choose Your Own Adventure (like Search For The Mountain Gorilla
and Race Forever)
Mallory
Little House on the Prairie books
Ready Freddy, such as Talent Show Scaredy Pants
Geronimo Stilton
Friendship According to Humphrey and other Humphrey books


AMAZING BOOKS, SOME WITH SERIOUS THEMES
The Giver
Shiloh
The Phantom Tollbooth
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Diary of Anne Frank
The Secret Garden
The Cay
My Secret War
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Rules


FAVORITE GRAPHIC NOVELS AND GRAPHIC HISTORIES
Akiko Books
Bumper boy
Garfield Treasuries
Miyazacki’s spirited away
Imoto no nyuin
The Curse Of King Tut’s Tomb
Babymouse
Invention of Hugo Cabret
Garfield Treasuries


GREAT NONFICTION
Spy
The Knowhow Book of Spycraft
J.K. Rowling: the Wizard behind Harry Potter
The Visual Dictionary of Baseball
Sports
Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Cross-Sections


DO SOMETHING!
Draw Your Own Cartoons
Art of Making Comic Books


PICTURE BOOKS, POETRY AND FOLKTALES WE LOVE
The Dot
My Teacher Likes to Say
Tuesday
The Princess Who Lost Her Hair