SUMMER READING LIST

Students Entering GRADE FOUR

*You may search the SAILS website from the Taunton Public Library’s link. 
Go to www.tauntonlibrary.org and then click on SAILS to locate a book(s) by author or title.

√ YOUR CHOICE

TITLE OF BOOK

AUTHOR

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Beverly Cleary

Beetles, Lightly Toasted

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

 

Ben and Me

Robert Lawson 

Catcher with a Glass Arm

*Matt Christopher

Charlotte’s Web

E. B. White

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective

Donald Sobol

How to Talk to your Dog

Jean George

King of the Wind:the Story of the Godolphin Arabian

*Marguerite Henry

The Cat Who Went to Heaven

Elizabeth Coatsworth

The Enormous Egg

Oliver Butterworth

The Great Brain

*John Fitzgerald

The Great Pumpkin Switch

Megan McDonald

How to Eat Fried Worms

Thomas Rockwell

The Hundred Dresses

Eleanor Estes

Jeremy Hatcher, Dragon Hatcher

Bruce Coville

Mark Twain and the River

Sterling North

Meet Kirsten:  An American Girl

Janet Shaw

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Richard and Florence Atwater

 

Shiloh

*Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Skinnybones

Barbara Park

So Dear to My Heart

Sterling North

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

The Story of King Arthur and his Knights

Howard Pyle

 

Tucker’s Countryside

George Selden

The Genie of Sutton Place

George Selden

The Wall

Eve Bunting

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume

Sleeping Ugly

*Jane Yolen

Who’s That Stepping On Plymouth Rock?

*Jean Fritz

*You may choose another book by the highlighted author.
Updated, April 2008