Recommended Summer Reading Book List for
Entering 4th Graders
| Title of Book | Author |
| A Taste of Blackberries | Doris Buchanan Smith |
| Babe and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure | Dan Gutman |
| Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo |
| Charlotte's Web | E.B. White |
| Dear. Mr Henshaw | Beverly Cleary |
| Dolphin Treasure | Wayne Grover |
| Freckle Juice | Judy Blume |
| Goalkeeper in Charge | Matt Christopher |
| Harriet the Spy | Louise Fitzhugh |
| Hatchet | Gary Paulson |
| Homer Price | Robert McCloskey |
| Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George |
| Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II | Louise Borden |
| Maniac Magee | John Spinelli |
| Mr. Popper's Penguins | Richard Atwater |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien |
| Owls in the Family | Farley Mowat |
| Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren |
| Pocahontas, Lewis and Clark | Sullivan |
| Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | Eleanor Coerr |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan |
| Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| Shores of Silver Lake | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Sign of the Beaver | Speare |
| Stone Fox | John Reynolds Gardner |
| Summer of the Swans | Betsy Cromer Byars |
| The Breadwinner | Deborah Ellis |
| The Courage of Sarah Noble | Alice Dalgliesh |
| The Enormous Egg | Oliver Butterworth |
| The Mouse and the Motorcycle | Beverly Cleary |
| The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog | John R. Erickson |
| Train to Somewhere | Eve Bunting |
| Trumpet of the Swan | E.B. White |
| Weird Stories from the Lonsome Café' | Judy Cox |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls |
| Who kidnapped the Sherriff | Larry Callen |
| Book Series | Author |
| Amber Brown Series | Paula Danziger |
| American Girls Collections | Valerie Trip & et. al. |
| Fudge Books | Judy Blume |
| Hank the Cow Dog | John R. Erickson |
| Little House Series | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Matt Christopher Multiple Sport Series | Matt Christopher |
| Narnia | C. S. Lewis |
| Ralph Books | Beverly Cleary |
| Ramona Books | Beverly Cleary |
| Soup Series | Robert Peck |
| The Adventures of Captain Underpants | Dav Pilkey |
| The Boxcar Mystery Series | Gertrude Chandler Warner |
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