4th-Grade-Book-List
This list includes fiction and nonfiction books and book series that appeal to 4th Graders.
Early Chapter Books
Early Chapter Books
Adventures from the Land of Stories: Queen Red Riding Hood's Guide to Royalty
"Queen Red Riding Hood from the Land of Stories gives advice and makes observations on how to rule"-- publisher.
Book 1, Adventures from the Land of Stories Companions series
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Early Chapter Books
Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom
When ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped, he discovers he can defend himself with a magical thunderbolt.
Book 1, Heroes in Training series
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Early Chapter Books
The Football Fiasco
"Zach and Zoe find their recess football deflated from a hole near the laces, and set off in search of clues to discover how it happened"-- publisher.
Book 3, Zach and Zoe series
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Graphic Novel
Graphic Novel
Diana, Princess of the Amazons
Eleven-year-old Diana, the gangly, sometimes clumsy, only child on the island of Themyscira, struggles to live up to the high Amazonian standards and longs for someone her own age whom she can talk to.
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Graphic Novel
The Baby-Sitters Club: A Graphic Novel
Baby-sitters V. 2
In this graphic version of Babysitters, Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey are best friends and founding members of The Baby-sitters Club. Whatever comes up--cranky toddlers, huge dogs, scary neighbors, prank calls--you can count on them to save the day. But baby-sitting isn't always easy, and neither is dealing with strict parents, new families, fashion emergencies, and mysterious secrets. But no matter what, the BSC have what they need most: friendship.
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Graphic Novel
Big Nate: Silent But Deadly
For more fun with Big Nate--Nate's alter ego the Great Nose-In! can smell trouble a mile away.
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Graphic Novel
The Red Pyramid: The Graphic Novel
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.
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Graphic Novel
Phoebe and Her Unicorn
t all started when Phoebe skipped a rock across a pond and accidentally hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this led to Phoebe being granted one wish, and using it to make the unicorn, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, her obligational best friend. But can a vain mythical beast and a nine-year-old daydreamer really forge a connection?
Book 5 in Phoebe series
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Graphic Novel
Wings of Fire: The Graphic Novel
Determined to end a generations-long war among the seven dragon tribes, a secret movement called the Talons of Peace draws on a prophecy that calls for a great sacrifice, compelling five appointed dragonets to fulfill a painful destiny against their will.
Book 2 of Wings of Fire: Graphic Novel
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Graphic Novel
Ghosts
Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one. Can Catrina be resilient and learn to appreciate her new home and make new friends?
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Graphic Novel
Guts
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away, and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on?
Also available in Spanish language: Agallas / Raina Telgemeier.
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Graphic Novel
Sisters
A companion to the Eisner Award-winning Smile finds Raina's disappointing bond with a cranky, independent younger sister further challenged by the arrival of a baby brother and an estrangement in their parents' marriage.
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Large Print
Large Print
The Trials of Morrigan Crow
"A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a prestigious organization called the Wundrous Society"-- publisher. Also available in large print.
Book 1, Nevermoor series
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Spanish Language
Spanish Language
The World According to Humphrey
Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher.
Also available in Spanish language: El mundo de acuerdo a Humphrey/ Betty G. Birney
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Wonder
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student. Also available in Spanish language.
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Resolving to earn money for his mother's bills, eleven-year-old Timmy launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear, but finds their enterprise challenged by a college-bound spy and a four-foot-tall girl whom Timmy refuses to acknowledge. Also available in Spanish language.
Book 1 in Timmy Failure series
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Spanish Language
Who was Walt Disney?
Walt Disney always loved to entertain people and wanted to create a safe and magical wonderland for families. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography reveals the man behind the magic.
Also available in Spanish language ebook.
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Spanish Language
Guts
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away, and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on?
Also available in Spanish language: Agallas / Raina Telgemeier.
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Spanish Language
Sisters
A companion to the Eisner Award-winning Smile finds Raina's disappointing bond with a cranky, independent younger sister further challenged by the arrival of a baby brother and an estrangement in their parents' marriage.
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Fiction
Fiction
The Terrible Two
When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local, mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks, but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.
Book 1 in Terrible Two series
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Fiction
The Penderwick : A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
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Fiction
The World According to Humphrey
Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher.
Also available in Spanish language: El mundo de acuerdo a Humphrey/ Betty G. Birney
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Fiction
Trapped in a Video Game
After getting sucked in the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of being in the game, but pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they cannot leave the game.
Book 1, Trapped in a Video Game series
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Fiction
Missing on Superstition Mountain
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When brothers Simon, Henry, and Jack move with their parents to Arizona, they chase their runaway cat to the aptly named Superstition Mountain, in spite of warnings that it is not safe.
Book 1 of the Superstition Mountain series
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Fiction
The Wild Robot
Roz the Robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
Book 1, Wild Robot series
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Fiction
Play Ball!
"Eleven-year-old cousins who are closer than most brothers, catcher Liam McCarthy and pitcher Carter Jones grew up playing baseball together. Now, their team is on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: the Little League Baseball World Series. To reach the title match, however, they must first beat their number one rivals from Southern California. Little do they know that the game will prove to be just the first challenge they'll face on their road to the championships"-- publisher.
Book 1 in Little League series
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Fiction
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
"Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about"-- publisher.
Book 1, Land of Stories series
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Fiction
Because of Winn-Dixie
Lonely ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all of the good things that happen to her because of her dog, Winn-Dixie.
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Fiction
The Tale of Despereaux : Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
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Fiction
The Moffats
Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.
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Fiction
Spy School
Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.
Book 1, Spy School series
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Fiction
Charlie Bumpers vs. the Teacher of the Year
Charlie Bumpers is sure he does not stand a chance of getting along with his fourth grade teacher and despite his best efforts to be neat and well-behaved, he always seems to be in trouble until he discovers her secret.
Book 1, Charlie (Bumpers) series
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Fiction
The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
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"The four princes erroneously dubbed Prince Charming and rudely marginalized in their respective fairy tales form an unlikely team when a witch threatens the whole kingdom"-- publisher.
Book 1, The Hero's Guide series
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Fiction
Elements of Genius: Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray
Nikki Tesla is a genius, so mostly she finds school boring, and amuses herself by inventing things, like her mysterious missing father; trouble is most of her inventions have serious, lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor); so she and her ferret are hustled off to the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional, although she still worries about fitting in--but when her death ray disappears she has something bigger to worry about: who took it and what are they planning to do?
Book 1, Elements of Genius series
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Fiction
Song for a Whale
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
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Fiction
Emily Windsnap and the Tides of Time
When Emily makes a wish on a magic stone, she gets a glimpse of what the future holds -- and it's a disaster! She tries to make things right, but each trip through time takes Emily to a future where things turn out badly for either the humans of Brightport or the merpeople of Shiprock. Plastic pollutes the ocean, garbage overflows the landfills, and the two towns are no longer getting along. Emily realizes she can't save her hometown and the ocean alone, but with help from her best friends, Shona and Mandy, she'll have to find a way to get humans and merpeople to work together.
Book 9, Emily Windsnap
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Fiction
Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The Getaway
To escape the stress of the holidays, the Heffleys decide to get out of town and go to a resort instead of celebrating Christmas at home. But what's billed as a stress-free vacation becomes a holiday nightmare.
Book 12, Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
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Fiction
Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Wrecking Ball
When an unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house, they soon discover that renovations may not be worth the effort.
Book 14, Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
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Fiction
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: the Meltdown
When snow closes Greg Heffley's middle school, he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, face a fight for survival as warring gangs turn the neighborhood into a wintry battlefield.
Book 13, Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
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Fiction
Pie in the Sky
Summary Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
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