JAMES B. EDWARDS ELEMENTARY

Books for Rising 4th Graders

Join Summer Reading Clubs at Charleston County Public Library and Barnes and Noble Book Store and get prizes and free books!

Choose at least THREE books from the list to read during the summer.  Record the following information on the signed reading sheet for each book.  This sheet is to be turned in to your fourth grade language arts teacher the first week of school. 

AR tests on these summer books can be counted as one extra (cumulative) grade for the first nine weeks grade in reading.

Reading during the summer is a way to relax and read for fun and a great way to improve your first nine weeks Reading grade! 

Here are some ideas to help you make summer reading a success for you and your child

Don't forget about biographies and non-fiction books!

Here are some good fiction titles:

Author

Title

Armstrong

Sounder

Avi

S.O.R. Losers

Babbitt

Tuck Everlasting

Banks

Indian in the Cupboard

Burnett

Secret Garden

Byars

Summer of the Swans

Dahl

James & the Giant Peach

Estes

Ginger Pye

Farley

Black Stallion

Gardiner

Stone Fox

George

Julie of the Wolves; My Side of the Mountain

Guy

The Friends

Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

Hughes

Nutty for President

Hunt

Across Five Aprils

Keith

Rifles for Watie

Kjelgaard

Big Red

Konigsburg

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

LeGuin

The Wizard of Earthsea

L’Engle

A Wrinkle in Time

Lindgren

Pippi Longstocking

Morey

Gentle Ben

McCloskey Homer Price

Mowat

Owls in the Family

Naylor

The Agony of Alice, Shiloh (series)

O’Brien

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Paterson

Jacob Have I Loved

Paulson

The River, Hatchet

Peck

Soup

Pierce

Allana: The First Adventure

Pinkwater

Lizard Music

Raskin

The Westing Game

Rawls

Where the Red Fern Grows

Roberts

Babysitting is a Dangerous Job

Rowling

Harry Potter (series)

Selden

Cricket In Times Square

Smith

Chocolate Fever

Snyder

Libby on Wednesday

Stevenson

Treasure Island

Stewart

A Walk in Wolf Wood

Taylor

The Cay; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Verne

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Voight

Homecoming

Tolkien

The Hobbit

Wilder

Farmer Boy; Little House on the Prairie series

Wyss

Swiss Family Robinson

Other choices:

 

Warner

The Boxcar Children series

Bunting

Our Sixth Grade Sugar Babies

Christopher

Shortstop from Tokyo, Dirt Bike Rider, etc

Fleischman

The Whipping Boy

Osbourne           

Ghost Town at Sundown, etc.

Lowry 

All About Sam 

Danziger

Amber Brown series

Martin 

Babysitter’s Club series

Adler Cam Jansen series
Baker Third Grade is Terrible
Blume Freckle Juice, Superfudge, etc
Brink Caddie Woodlawn
Cleary Henry and Ribsy, Ramona the Pest, etc
Conford Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood
Estee The Hundred Dresses
Field Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
FitzHugh Harriet the Spy
Fleishman The Wish Giver
Gipson Old Yeller
Hesse Sable
Howe Bunnicula (series)
Hurwitz Teacher's Pet (or others by this author)
Jacques Redwall Series
King-Smith Ace: The Very Important Pig
Knight Lassie Come Home
Lawson Rabbit Hill
Leighton Florence Nightingale
Lexau Striped Ice Cream
Lowry Number the Stars
Milne House at Pooh Corner
Norton The Borrowers
Sewell Black Beauty
Snickett Bad Beginning (or others in the series)
Sobol Encyclopedia Brown (series)
Spinelli Fourth Grade Rats, Maniac Magee
Thomas The Comeback Dog
White Stuart Little
Winthrop Castle in the Attic

Books from the following series: The American Girl, Dear America, Artemis Fowl, Warriors, Hardy Boys and  Nancy Drew mysteries

Biographies or autobiographies on African Americans, Presidents, Inventors, or Women

Award-winning books (Newbery Medal, SC Children’s Book Award Nominees for 2006-2007, Coretta Scott King Award)

May 2006 Update

 
We are looking forward to seeing you in August. Don't forget to bring your Signed Reading Sheet with you.   

Click here to return to JBE Main Page!