SUGGESTED BOOK LISTS GRADES 3 AND 4

Bauer, The Blue Ghost  Nine year-old Liz is led to make contact with children she believes may be her ancestors.

Benton, Attack of the 50-Foot Cupid  A 50 ft. arrow shooting cupid is on the loose.

 Blume, Double Fudge 12 year-old Peter must deal with his embarrassing cousins and his brother.

 Brown, Flat Stanley  Stanley Lampchop goes flat to help win certain situations.

Choldenko, Al Capone Does My Shirts   A 12 year-old boy moves to Alcatraz Island where guard families live.

Colfer,  Half Moon Investigations  A boy must track down a conspiracy  or be framed for a crime.

Christopher, Matt Christopher Sports Series

Curtis, *Bud, Not Buddy Ten year-old homeless boy living in Michigan, leaves a foster home to find his dad.

Danziger, Amber Brown Series

Drake, Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology handbook : a practical course in dragons

Edwards, The Great American Mousical Presents the adventures of theatrical mice that live & work in a miniature world beneath Broadway.

Erickson,  Hank the Cowdog Series   PB

Greene, Queen Sophie Hartley Sophie befriends a new girl at school which  helps her feel good at something.

Greenwald, Rosy Cole’s Memoir Explosion  A girl  writes a memoir about  herself  and  her friends, and they are angry with her.       

Lewis, The Lion, the Witch , and the Wardrobe Four  kids find their way through the back of a wardrobe…       

MacLachlan, *Sarah, Plain and Tall  Caleb and Anna must find a way to make their father’s new mail-order bride stay.

McDonald, Judy Moody The adventures of a third grader

Naylor, Cuckoo Feathers  A young girl’s pigeons make their home somewhere else—how will she get them back?

 Osborne, Winter of the Ice Wizard  A group of kids travel behind the clouds to find the wizard’s eye.

 Pilkey,  Captain Underpants Series Superhero Captain Underpants tries to save the world.      

 Warner, Not so Weird Emma Eight year-old Emma likes her new school, until a friend tells others she is strange.

 Wilder, Little House on the Prairie Series Stories of a little girl and her family and their adventures in  the late 1800’s.

* Denotes Newbery Award