Aquinas Academy Recommended Reading List—Grade 4
American Girl Series
Auch, Mary Jane Journey to Nowhere
Banks, Lynn Reid The Indian in the Cupboard
Baum, Frank The Wizard of Oz (series)
Bishop, Curtis Sideline Pass
Brink, Carol Ryrie Caddie Woodlawn
Magical Melons (sequel to Caddie Woodlawn)
Family Grandstand
Family Sabbatical (sequel to Family Grandstand)
Others….
Burnford, Sheila The Incredible Journey
Burnett, Frances Hodgson A Little Princess
Calhoun, Mary Katie John
Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Childhood of Famous American series
Clarke, Pauline The Return of the Twelves
Coatsworth, Elizabeth Alice-All-by-Herself
Door to the North: A Saga of Fourteenth Century America
The Last Fort: A Story of the French Voyagers
The Sword of the Wilderness
Away Goes Sally
Five Bushel Farm The Fair American
Coerr, Eleanor Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Cohen, Barbara Molly’s Pilgrim
Daugherty, James Daniel Boone
D’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Book of Greek Myths
Abraham Lincoln
Benjamin Franklin
Columbus
Decker, Duane Catcher from Double A
De Jong, Dola The Level Land (World War II, Holland)
Return to the Level (sequel to The Level Land)
De Jong, Meindert Dirk’s Dog, Bello
Bells of the Harbor (sequel to Dirk’s Dog, Bello)
Far Out on the Canal
The House of Sixty Fathers
Hurry Home, Candy
Shadrach
The Wheel on the School
DuBois, Wlliam Pene The Twenty –One Balloons
Duncan, Jane Camerons Ahoy!
Camerons at the Castle
Camerons Calling
Camerons on the Hills
Camerons on the Train Durbin, William The Broken Blade
Dygard, Thomas Backfield Package
Forward Pass
Game Plan
Halfback Tough
Infield Hit
Outside Shooter
Many others….
Edmonds, Walter The Matchlock Gun
Edwards, Julie Mandy
Enright, Elizabeth Thimble Summer
Gone-Away Lake
Return to Gone-Away
The Melendy Family series:
The Saturdays
The Four-Story Mistake
Then There Were Five
Estes, Eleanor The Alley
The Moffat series:
The Moffats
The Middle Moffat
Rufus
The Pye series:
Ginger Pye Pinky Pye
Facklam, Margery Wild Animals, Gentle Women
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield Understood Betsy
Fleischman, Paul Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Fritz, Jean What’s the Big Idea, Benjamin Franklin?
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?
Others…
Frost, Robert A Swinger of Birches: Poems of Robert Frost For Young People
Grahame, Kenneth The Wind in the Willows
Henry, Marguerite Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
King of the Wind
Misty of Chincoteague
Many others…
Holling, Clancy Paddle to the Sea series
Juster, Norton The Phantom Tollbooth
Keene, Carolyn Nancy Drew Series
Keith, Harold Bluejay Boarders
Runt of Rodgers School
Susy’s Scoundrel
Will Rogers, A Boy’s Life: An Indian Territory Childhood
Kipling, Rudyard Just So Stories Knight, Eric Lassie Come Home
Lang, Andrew The Blue Fairy Book
The Pink Fairy Book
Many colors…
Lanier, Sidney The Boy’s King Arthur
Langton, Jane The Fledgling
Lawson, Robert Ben and Me
Captain Kidd’s Cat
The Fabulous Fight
Many others…
Lenski, Lois Strawberry Girl
Lewis, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia
Lindquist, Jennie O. The Nancy series (see Grade 3 list)
Lovelace, Maud Hart Betsy-Tacy series (see Grade 3 list)
MacDonald, George The Princess and Curdie
The Princess and the Goblin
At the Back of the North Wind
The Golden Key
The Light Princess
McCormick, Dell J. Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe
McSwigan, Marie Snow Treasure
Meadowcroft, Enid L. Silver for George Washington
By Secret Railway
By Wagon and Flatboat Others…
Morey, Walt Gentle Ben
Nesbit, E. Five Children and It
Norton, Mary The Borrowers series
O’Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O’Neill, Mary Hailstones and Halibut Bones (poems)
Patterson, Dr. Francine Koko’s Kitten
Pearce, Philippa Tom’s Midnight Garden
Pyle, Howard The Wonder Clock
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Book of Pirates
Jack Ballister’s Fortunes
Men of Iron
Otto of the Silver Hand
The Story of Sir Lancelot and His Companions
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Polland, Madeleine Beorn the Proud
Children of the Red King
City of the Golden House
Fingal’s Quest
The Queen’s Blessing
Stranger in the Hills
Ransome, Arthur The Swallows and Amazons series
Reilly, Robert T. Massacre at Ash Hollow Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal
Robinson, Barbara The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Sawyer, Ruth Roller Skates
The Year of Jubilo (sequel to Roller Skates)
Selden, George The Cricket in Times Square
The Old Meadow
Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse
Tucker’s Countryside
Harry’s Cat’s Pet Puppy
Seredy, Kate The Good Master
The Singing Tree
The White Stag
Silverstein, Shel A Light in the Attic
Smith, Dodie The Hundred and One Dalmatians
The Starlight Barking: More about the Hundred and One
Dalmatians
Sperry, Armstrong Call it Courage
Spyri, Johanna Heidi
Stolz, M.S. A Dog on Barkham Street
Streatfeild, Noel Ballet Shoes
Dancing Shoes
The Family at Caldecott Place
The Magic Summer
Movie Shoes Party Shoes
Theater Shoes
Thursday’s Child
Many others…
Taylor, Sydney All-of-a-Kind Family series (See Grade 3)
Vision Books—Biographies of Saints lives (see Grade 3)
Warner, Gertrude Chandler The Boxcar Children Series
Wilder, Laura Ingalls Little House Series (see Grade 3)