Dear Future Fourth Graders and Parents,

Students entering the Fourth Grade should read five (5) books during the summer. Each of these books must be chapter books. The book title and author’s name should be written at the bottom of this form. The attached form should be completed discussing one chapter book of your choice. The completed list and chapter book form should be signed by a parent and submitted to the teacher on the first day of the new school year.

Book Title Author Bonus Box! List any extra books you may have read. 1.

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Student’s Name______Parent Signature ______

Suggested Books: Little House series – Wilder The One and Only Ivan – Applegate Encyclopedia Brown – Sobol Sounder – Armstrong McGee and Me, Wally McDoogle series - Myers Caddie Woodlawn – Brink Sports Fiction series – Christopher The Incredible Journey – Burnford Pippi Longstocking – Lingren The Summer of the Swans – Byars The Borrowers – Norton The Moffats – Estes Island of the Blue Dolphins – O’Dell The Whipping Boy – Fleischman

Make Way for Sam Houston – Fritz Suggested Authors: Pigs Might Fly – King-Smith Matt Christopher Journey to America – Levitin David McCauley Sarah, Plain and Tall – Maclachlan Beverly Cleary Homer Price – McCloskey Connie Porter Shiloh – Naylor Lee Roddy Rascal – North Arleta Richardson Skinnybones – Park Robert Lawson Stuart Little – White Nancy Rue Harriet the Spy – Fitzhugh Lois Lenski Boxcar Children series – Warner Seymour Simon American Girl series – Adler Janette Oke Chocolate Fever – Smith Kenneth Grahame A Cricket in Times Square – Selden Peggy Parish Sugar Creek Gang series – Hutchins Betsy Byars Red Rock Mysteries series – Jenkins

Dixie Morris Animal Adventures – Morris Summer Reading Form

Please complete, in cursive, both sides of this worksheet on one book you read this summer.

Name______Grade _____4______

1. The title of my book was: ______

2. The author of my book was: ______

3. There were ______pages in my book.

4. The main characters of my book were: a.______b.______c.______

5. The setting of my books was: (where and when the story took place)

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6. The point of view of the story was in: (1st person, 3rd person) ______

7. Explain the plot of the book: (What happened in the story)

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8. My personal opinion about the book is: (Did you like it? Why or why not?) ______