*Here is a list of books and authors that are favorites among fourth grade students:
Mishmash series
by Molly Cone
My Robot Buddy
and others by Alfred Slote
How to Eat Fried Worms
by Thomas Rockwell
Something Queer series
by Elizabeth Levy
Henry and the Clubhouse
by Beverly Cleary
The Barn and others
by Avi
Totally Disgusting
and anything by Bill Wallace
The Year Mom Won the Pennant
and sports fiction by Matt Christopher
Hobie Hanson, You’re Weird
and anything by Jamie Gilson
James and the Giant Peach
and others by Roald Dahl
Island of the Blue Dolphins
and Zia by Scott O’Dell
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats
of NIMH by Robert O’Brien
Fourth Grade Wizards
by Barthe Declements
The Girl Who Knew It All
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Escape from Earth by
Debra Hess
Babysitter series by
Ann Hodgman
Ghost of Shockly Manor
by William Alexander