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Accelerated Reader List, 4Th Grade Accelerated Reader Quiz List - Reading Practice Quiz No. Title Author Book Level Points 7652 EN Addy Saves the Day Porter, Connie 4 1 25292 EN Against the Odds: Grizzly Attack Strasser, Todd 4 4 302 EN All About Sam Lowry, Lois 4 3 17552 EN B. Bear Scouts Save That Backscratcher, The Berenstain, Stan/Jan 4 1 19206 EN B. Bears Get Their Kicks, The Berenstain, Stan/Jan 4 0.5 32327 EN Blork's Evil Twin (Space Brat 2) Coville, Bruce 4 1 46246 EN Carol of the Brown King: Nativity Poems Hughes, Langston 4 0.5 2885 EN Chimps Use Tools Llewellyn, Claire 4 0.5 309 EN Circle of Gold Boyd, Candy Dawson 43 41519 EN Crazy Horse's Vision Bruchac, Joseph 4 0.5 44961 EN Elevator Family, The Evans, Douglas 4 1 55718 EN Emperor Lays an Egg, The Guiberson, Brenda Z. 4 0.5 14666 EN Encyclopedia Brown...Disgusting Sneakers Sobol, Donald J. 4 1 11761 EN Everglades George, Jean Craighead 4 0.5 45253 EN Everything Book, The Fleming, Denise 4 0.5 42389 EN Fighting for the Forest Rand, Gloria 4 0.5 10776 EN George's Marvelous Medicine Dahl, Roald 4 2 9264 EN Ghost Ship Mystery, The Warner, Gertrude Chandler 4 3 50488 EN Grandpa Blows His Penny Whistle Until the Angels Sing Roth, Susan L. 4 0.5 6470 EN Great Rescue Operation, The Van Leeuwen, Jean 4 4 17568 EN Guide Dog Mystery, The Warner, Gertrude Chandler 4 2 265 EN Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs Gilson, Jamie 4 4 28568 EN Is There Room on the Feather Bed? Gray, Libba Moore 4 0.5 11772 EN Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival Pennington, Daniel 4 0.5 10475 EN Jewish Holidays in the Spring MacMillan, Dianne M. 4 1 17573 EN Kid Coach, The Bowen, Fred 4 2 18879 EN Kids During the American Civil War Wroble, Lisa A. 4 0.5 18880 EN Kids During the Renaissance Wroble, Lisa A. 4 0.5 18882 EN Kids in Colonial Times Wroble, Lisa A. 4 0.5 18883 EN Kids in Pioneer Times Wroble, Lisa A. 4 0.5 18636 EN Library Lil Williams, Suzanne 4 0.5 34934 EN Lightning! Hopping, Lorraine Jean 4 0.5 7159 EN Lotus Seed, The Garland, Sherry 4 0.5 6477 EN Love Flute Goble, Paul 4 0.5 279 EN Mitzi's Honeymoon with Nana Potts Williams, Barbara 4 3 10483 EN Mother's Day (Best Holiday Book) Gore, Willma Willis 4 0.5 7785 EN Mysterious Hideaway, The Johnson, Lois Walfrid 4 6 19356 EN Mystery at Claudia's House, The Martin, Ann M. 4 4 9275 EN Mystery at the Dog Show, The Warner, Gertrude Chandler 4 2 10914 EN Mystery Bookstore, The Warner, Gertrude Chandler 4 2 9278 EN Mystery in Washington, D.C., The Warner, Gertrude Chandler 4 2 9282 EN Mystery of the Phantom Pony, The Hall, Lynn 4 1 9283 EN Mystery of the Purple Pool, The Warner, Gertrude Chandler 4 2 284 EN Oliver Dibbs to the Rescue! Steiner, Barbara 4 4 31075 EN Phantoms Don't Drive Sports Cars Dadey/Jones 41 1574 EN Plants and Flowers (It's Science!) Hewitt, Sally 4 0.5 9790 EN Rechenka's Eggs Polacco, Patricia 4 0.5 4791 EN Redwood Trees (Trees) Prevost, John F. 4 0.5 9649 EN Santa Calls Joyce, William 4 0.5 32414 EN Sheepdog in the Snow Baglio, Ben M. 4 4 5490 EN Song and Dance Man Ackerman, Karen 4 0.5 19399 EN Starring the Baby-sitters Club! Martin, Ann M. 4 5 293 EN Stone Fox Gardiner, John Reynolds 41 5494 EN Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig, William 4 0.5 295 EN Taste of Blackberries, A Smith, Doris Buchanan 4 2 50002 EN Touch the Poem Adoff, Arnold 4 0.5 53948 EN Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 Rumford, James 4 0.5 14600 EN Utterly Yours, Booker Jones Duffey, Betsy 43 43210 EN Wacky Plant Cycles Wyatt, Valerie 4 0.5 47355 EN Walk in the Rain Forest, A Johnson, Rebecca L. 4 0.5 18897 EN Weather Forecasting Gibbons, Gail 4 0.5 Accelerated Reader Quiz List - Reading Practice Quiz No. Title Author Book Level Points 24585 EN West Along the Wagon Road, 1852 Lawlor, Laurie 4 4 16931 EN Why I Quit the Baby-Sitter's Club Haynes, Betsy 42 32328 EN Wrath of Squat (Space Brat 3), The Coville, Bruce 4 1 7550 EN Zippity Zoom (Original Text) Cosgrove, Stephen 4 0.5 45400 EN Abe Lincoln Remembers Turner, Ann 4.1 0.5 1572 EN All Kinds of Animals (It's Science!) Hewitt, Sally 4.1 0.5 6451 EN Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky Ringgold, Faith 4.1 0.5 17554 EN B. Bears and the Bermuda Triangle, The Berenstain, Stan/Jan 4.1 1 34962 EN Bats Gibbons, Gail 4.1 0.5 252 EN Bears' House, The Sachs, Marilyn 4.1 2 5459 EN Blueberries for Sal McCloskey, Robert 4.1 0.5 48069 EN Bo and Mzzz Mad Fleischman, Sid 4.1 2 9472 EN Boy Who Swallowed Snakes, The Yep, Laurence 4.1 0.5 9258 EN Canoe Trip Mystery, The Warner, Gertrude Chandler 4.1 2 47220 EN Children of the Civil War Ransom, Candice F. 4.1 0.5 257 EN Christina's Ghost Wright, Betty Ren 4.1 3 65705 EN Creation, The Johnson, James Weldon 4.1 0.5 32413 EN Cub in the Cupboard Baglio, Ben M. 4.1 4 64456 EN Earthquakes Prager, Ellen J. 4.1 0.5 5415 EN Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective Sobol, Donald J. 4.1 1 1576 EN Flowering Plants (Step-by-Step) Oxlade, Chris 4.1 0.5 315 EN Friendship, The Taylor, Mildred D. 4.1 1 1571 EN Full of Energy (It's Science!) Hewitt, Sally 4.1 0.5 17567 EN Golden Glove, The Bowen, Fred 4.1 2 1573 EN Hearing Sounds (It's Science!) Hewitt, Sally 4.1 0.5 32415 EN Hedgehogs in the Hall Baglio, Ben M. 4.1 3 64967 EN Honeybees Heiligman, Deborah 4.1 0.5 16219 EN How a Plant Grows (Crabapples) Kalman, Bobbie 4.1 0.5 11769 EN How Mountains Are Made Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner 4.1 0.5 28883 EN Hunt for Food (Life's Cycles), The Ganeri, Anita 4.1 0.5 17321 EN If You Made a Million Schwartz, David M. 4.1 0.5 272 EN Jelly Belly Smith, Robert Kimmel 4.1 4 11773 EN Kirby Puckett: Be the Best You Can Be Puckett/Brown 4.1 0.5 7186 EN Korean Cinderella, The Climo, Shirley 4.1 0.5 58926 EN Ladybugs: Red, Fiery, and Bright Posada, Mia 4.1 0.5 7525 EN Leo the Lop: Tail Three (Original Text) Cosgrove, Stephen 4.1 0.5 57476 EN Life Cycles (Cycles) Ross, Michael Elsohn 4.1 0.5 1570 EN Machines We Use (It's Science!) Hewitt, Sally 4.1 0.5 19353 EN Mallory and the Ghost Cat Martin, Ann M. 4.1 5 7771 EN Mandie and the Hidden Treasure Leppard, Lois Gladys 4.1 5 9272 EN Meg Mackintosh...Mystery at Camp Creepy Landon, Lucinda 4.1 1 6481 EN Mountain Miracle Tedrow, T.L. 4.1 8 329 EN My Brother Stevie Clymer, Eleanor 4.1 3 9280 EN Mystery of the Lost Village, The Warner, Gertrude Chandler 4.1 2 7536 EN Napoleon's Rainbow (Original Text) James, Robin 4.1 0.5 11557 EN Night of the Gargoyles Bunting, Eve 4.1 0.5 58387 EN One Tiny Turtle Davies, Nicola 4.1 0.5 30301 EN Our Ocean Home Nelson, Robert Lyn 4.1 0.5 9292 EN Pizza Mystery, The Warner, Gertrude Chandler 4.1 3 41449 EN Raft, The LaMarche, Jim 4.1 0.5 5537 EN Relatives Came, The Rylant, Cynthia 4.1 0.5 288 EN Remembering Box, The Clifford, Eth 4.1 1 34846 EN Santa Cows Edens, Cooper 4.1 0.5 20501 EN Seasons (A True Book) Sipiera, Paul/Diane 4.1 0.5 52625 EN Secret School, The Avi 4.1 3 342 EN Skinnybones Park, Barbara 4.1 3 2859 EN Snowflakes Can Fall in Summer Taylor, Helen 4.1 0.5 31072 EN Spider Kane and the Mystery Under the May-Apple Osborne, Mary Pope 4.1 2 57985 EN Sun Tomecek, Stephen M. 4.1 0.5 20699 EN Team That Couldn't Lose, The Christopher, Matt 4.1 2 347 EN Teddy Bear's Scrapbook Howe, Deborah/James 4.1 1 Accelerated Reader Quiz List - Reading Practice Quiz No. Title Author Book Level Points 10492 EN Tet: Vietnamese New Year MacMillan, Dianne M. 4.1 0.5 27677 EN Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco, Patricia 4.1 0.5 48343 EN Through the Lock Hurst, Carol Otis 4.1 5 17598 EN Trapped Beyond the Magic Attic Sinykin, Sheri Cooper 4.1 1 16928 EN Treasure of El Patron, The Paulsen, Gary 4.1 1 47351 EN Walk in the Boreal Forest, A Johnson, Rebecca L. 4.1 0.5 47352 EN Walk in the Deciduous Forest, A Johnson, Rebecca L. 4.1 0.5 47353 EN Walk in the Desert, A Johnson, Rebecca L. 4.1 0.5 17346 EN What's Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah? Wells, Robert E. 4.1 0.5 46583 EN When Night Comes Hirschi, Ron 4.1 0.5 53446 EN Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart Williams, Vera B.
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