Tredyffrin/Easttown School District

Books That Are Too Good to Miss

Grade 4

 

Note to Students, Teachers and Parents:

Ask your teacher or librarian for more suggestions of books that are too good to miss.

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Children who enjoy sports and poetry will enjoy these sport poems.

Aiken, J. -- The Last Slice of Rainbow

This is a fine collection of nine fairy tales.

The story of Beatrix Potter, the creator of Peter Rabbit.

Egan goes to visit relatives in Instep where he encounters an unusual moan that comes from the top of Kneeknock Rise.

Bishop. C. -- Twenty and Ten

Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II.

Blume, J. -- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

A nine year old's biggest problem is his little brother, and funny complications follow as he tries to cope with him.

Mattie wants to buy a beautiful gold pin for her mom and needs to think of ways she can do it.

A spirited pioneer girl's adventure on the Wisconsin frontier.

Nate finds an enormous egg in the family's hen house. When it hatches, everyone is in for a big surprise.

Cats and people can't get along until a night of rioting brings them together.

Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

Warren wants to make horror movies. He'll be famous and rich, but it won't make up for not being able to be with his mother.

What happens when Steve Crandall plays center on a professional junior hockey team?

When Leigh Botts finds an abandoned wild dog on the beach, he names him Strider and gains a new friend who helps him face problems in his life.

Left alone during the Revolutionary War, Willy goes to Frauncas Tavern in New York to work until the war is over.

Jennifer befriends an overweight girl who is caught stealing lunch money.

The Finches have a volcano in their cellar and they know they must keep this explosive secret to themselves.

Lost on wintry roads, a mute boy searches for his mother, who has not returned home from the market.

The author tells of his experiences in England during World War II.

Pan, the Greek god, and his relatives have many adventures in this collection of tales.

This biography relates the experiences of John Quincy Adams as a young man.

Robin Hood and his men in Sherwood Forest right wrongs and fight injustice.

The author reminisces about his youth in a collection of his personal experiences in a hamlet on the central plain of Vietnam.

Sacajawea, a Native American woman, guides Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition to the Pacific coast.

Tales, myths and legends of India are told in this book.

Nothing like her six blond, beautiful sisters, Princess Amy didn't want to marry a stuffy old prince anyway.

A champion Irish setter and a trapper's son grow up together roaming the wilderness.

Famous walls of the world tell their stories.

Claudia and her brother, Jamie, run away from home and take up residence in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

When her family moves from Germany to Canada, Anna undergoes changes both socially and emotionally.

Lord, B. -- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

A Chinese child moves to Brooklyn where she starts to feel at home when she discovers baseball and the Dodgers

The adventures of an American Midwestern boy.

The life of a former slave, Sojourner Truth, is traced.

During the Nazi occupation of his village, Peter and the other children have to slip past Nazi guards with gold hidden on their sleds.

Through the powers of a magical kente, a black snowman comes to life.

Ten year's old Larry is discovered on the street and asked to appear in a television commercial. Only later does he find out what he is advertising.

Zany adventures of Wol and Weeps - two owls who join Billy and his dog Mutt to shake up the whole neighborhood.

The main source of this documentary of train travel in the 19^th century is the journal of the great author Robert Louis Stevenson who left his home in Scotland to travel to California to visit the woman he loved.

Presented in the frog prince motif, this story is a wonderful animal fantasy.

While visiting relatives on their farm in Ireland, Brian is homesick but cheered by his great grandfather's wonderful tales.

A kidnapping in the insect world mobilizes a whole insect village.

The Roberts family unknowingly buys a haunted house.

Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart.

This biography tells about the life of the famous frontiersman, Davy Crockett.

Uprooted following the death of their father, 9 year old Vinnie and her 5 year-old brother Mason cope in different ways.

Meet snopps, lurpps, a monumental meath, and flonsters.

The six horrible Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world, cause mayhem throughout the year.

The life of Guinevere from her girlhood to her betrothal to King Arthur is told.

This biography relates the life and assassination of our thirty-fifth president.

Chester resides in a newsstand in Times Square. He has many adventures and ends up rescuing the newsstand owner from financial disaster.

A boy with leukemia has many sports experiences.

A harmless prank ends in tragedy and the narrator must find the strength to bear his grief and come to terms with guilt.

Kidnapped from Africa, a group of men, women, and children held in chains aboard the schooner, Armistad, attempt to pirate the ship and return to their home.

This biography tells the story of the Revolutionary War heroine, Molly Pitcher.

African American art and literature are featured in this book.

These poems are blank verse memories and reflections of a rural African American childhood.

Ricky has a fear of dogs but he lets himself get close to one.

No one suspects that this family of rag dolls are not humans.

A swan, who actually plays the trumpet, has many adventures.

When William receives a wooden model of a castle and picks up a tiny silver knight, it comes alive in his hand and he is swept into another land and time.

An enchanted boat heads back in time to the time of George Washington.

Chaos reigns when Noah shrinks and his miniature men come to life.

Disco dinosaurs dance in these delightful poems.

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