4th Grade Book List

The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket

The BFG
Roald Dahl

The Boxcar Children
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Charlotte's Web
E. B. White

The Cricket in Times Square
George Selden

Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Barbara Kerley

Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
James Gurney

Dragon Rider
Cornelia Funke

Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine

Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini
Sid Fleischman

Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg
Gail Carson Levine

The Field Guide
Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

The Forests of Silence (Series: Deltora Quest)
Emily Rodda

The Forging of the Blade
R. L. La Fevers

Frindle
Andrew Clements

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

Golden and Grey: An Unremarkable Boy and a Rather Remarkable Ghost
Louise Arnold

The Great Brain
John D. Fitzgerald

Gregor the Overlander
Suzanne Collins

The Indian in the Cupboard
Lynne Reid Banks

Into the Wild (Series: Warriors)
Erin Hunter

The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures
Brian Selznick

The Magician's Nephew
C. S. Lewis

The Merchant of Death (Series: Pendragon)
D. J. MacHale

Midnight for Charlie Bone (Series: Children of the Red King)
Jenny Nimmo

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Jeanne Birdsall

The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster

Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren

Pirateology: The Sea Journal of Captain William Lubber, Pirate Hunter General, Boston, Massachusetts
Dugald Steer

Poppy
Avi

Rowan of Rin
Emily Rodda

The Ruins of Gorlan
John Flanagan

Running Out of Time
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Louis Sachar

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume

Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
Kate DiCamillo

Titanic: The Ship of Dreams
Ken Geist

The Trouble with Tink
Kiki Thorpe

Ugly
Donna Jo Napoli

Urchin of the Riding Stars
M. I. McAllister

Wait Till Helen Comes
Mary Downing Hahn

Wizard at Work
Vivian Vande Velde

The Word Eater
Mary Amato
j Amato