Summer Reading
Entering 4th Grade
Bath, Maine 04530

June 2008

Fiction

The BossQueen, Little BigBark, and the Sentinel Pup.  Jordan

Captain Underpants (series).  Pilkey

Clarice Bean Spells Trouble. Child

Encyclopedia Brown (series). Sobol

Flat Stanley. Brown

How I Became a Pirate. Long

How to Eat Fried Worms. Rockwell

Ida B.  Hannigan

Jeremy Thacher, Dragon Hatcher. Coville

Moon Runner.  Marsden

Sable. Hesse

Secret Identity. Wendelin

Shanghai Messenger. Cheng

Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Sachar

Strider. Cleary

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Blume 

Fantasy / Science Fiction

Afternoon of the Elves. Lisle

Bats at the Beach. Lies

Catwings. LeGuin

Diary of a Worm. Cronin

Howliday Inn. Howe

James and the Giant Peach. Dahl

King's Equal. Paterson

Poppy.  Avi


Poetry

A Poke in the Eye. Janeczko

Bow Wow, Meow Meow: It's Rhyming Cats and Dogs. Florian

Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow. Sidman

Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. Rex

If Not For the Cat. Prelutsky

Nonfiction

Bateman's Backyard Birds. Bateman

ER Vets.  Jackson

Mummies. Tanaka

National Audubon First Guide to Insects. (birds or trees)

Rescue. Markle

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing. Rumford


Compiled by the K-8 Bath School Librarian.

Books available at Patten Free Library.

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