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Recommended Book List 4-6

Grade 4
NOVEL AUTHOR
Babe the Gallant Pig Dick King-Smith
The Borrowers Mary Norton
The Chocolate Touch Patrick S. Catling
The Enormous Egg Oliver Butterworth
Freckle Juice Judy Blume
Friendship and the Gold Cadillac * Mildred Taylor
How to Eat Fried Worms Thomas Rockwell
Justin and the Best Biscuits In the World * Mildred Pitts
Misty of Chincoteague Marguerite Henry
The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks Nancy McArthur
Sato and the Elephants * Juanita Havill
Save by Rainforest * Monica Zak
The Skates of Uncle Richard Carol Fenner
Stuart Little E. B. White
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing * Judy Blume
Tales from Gold Mountain:  Stories of the Chinese in the the New World Paul Lee
A Taste of Blackberries Delores Buchanan Smith
Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear * Linsy Namioko
Grade 5
NOVEL AUTHOR
Boat Girl * Bernard Ashley
The Cay Theodore Taylor
Dear Mr. Henshaw Beverly Cleary
The Hundred Penny Box  * Sharon Bell Mathis
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson  * Bette Boa Lord
James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl
Kid in the Red Jacket Barbara Park
The Mouse and the Motorcycle Beverly Cleary
Phillip Hall Likes Me I Reckon Bette Greene
Sadako and the thousand Paper Cranes * Eleanor Coerr
Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan
Sign of the Beaver  * Elizabeth George Speare
Skylark Patricia MacLachlan
Sounder * William Howard Armstrong
The Story of Women who Shaped the West * Mary Virginia Fox
The Trumpet of the Swan E. B. White
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare
Grade 6
NOVEL AUTHOR
The Black Pearl Scott O'Dell
Bunnicula Deborah and James Howe
Colin Powell:  Straight To The Top * Rose Blue & Corinne Naden
Famous Asian Americans * Janet Morey & Wendy Dunn
The Great Gilly Hopkins `Katherine Paterson
Hello, My Name is Scrambled Eggs * Jamie Gilson
Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell
A Jar of Dreams * Yoshiko Uchida
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C. O'Brien
The Pinballs Betsy Byars
Rosa Parks:  My Story * Rosa Parks
Rooftop Astronomer:  A Story About Marie Mitchell * Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Space Challenger:  the Story of Guion Bluford * Jim Haskins & Kathleen Benson
Strider Beverly Cleary
Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars
Tales Mummies Tell Patricia Lauber
Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt
The Westing Game Ellen Raskin
Where the Red Fern Grows W. Rawls

 

* Multicultural Books

 

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