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

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

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

Edwards, Julie Mandy

Enright, Elizabeth

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

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

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)